Tag:building=office

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Description
A building which contains spaces mainly designed to be used for offices. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Rendering in OSM Carto
Area building=yes.png
Group: buildings
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Status: de facto

building=office is used to tag an office building constructed to house offices. A typical office building has one or more office=* objects inside and is frequently located within a commercial area landuse=commercial.

Smaller office building, also taggable as building=office[1]

Note that additional tags may be useful in some situations - for example amenity=townhall, or amenity=courthouse).

Note that some offices (marked with office=*) may also be located in buildings of other types. For example, a former church building repurposed as an office will be still tagged as building=church, possibly with building:use=* on it.


Similar tags

  • building=commercial - A commercial building that may include not only offices but also broad range of other building types - ranging from self-storage warehouses through cinemas to hotels and buildings intended as restaurants. For office buildings building=office is preferable over building=commercial.
  • building=retail - A building that primarily houses shops.

Possible tagging mistakes

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