Tag:house=detached
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 house = detached
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A detached house is a freestanding residential building usually housing a single family. 
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A detached house is a freestanding residential building usually housing a single family.
Known as a single-family home in the United States, a single-detached dwelling in Canada, a separate house in New Zealand and Maison individuelle in France.
If the building shares a wall with another building, then it should either be tagged with house=semi-detached or house=terraced.
Alternate tagging
Many mappers prefer to map this with the tag building=detached.
As of December 2020, over 80% of uses of house=detached are in Ireland. In most countries, it is much more common to use building=detached.
See this OSM tag history as a curve chart which shows the development of the usage numbers of the different tags in comparison.