In Germany, there are various communities where the houses are classified as residential (i.e., landuse=residential), but are often permitted to be used only as vacation or weekend uses.
It would be interesting to know whether there are similar settlements with the same or similar uses or usage restrictions elsewhere in the world.
According to a few dictionaries, a possible translation of the German term “Ferienhaus” into English would be “cottage” or “weekend cottage”—would that work? Or is there another term from English that we haven’t noticed yet? The goal is to find a suitable tag for residential=*, which will then be documented in the wiki.
Here is a link to the previous discussions in the German subforum:
In Australian English, a “weekender” is a second house that you own at e.g. the beach, so you can go down there for the weekend, & have somewhere to stay. But there’s nothing stopping you from going mid-week, for a month straight, or permanently! British laws may differ?
residential=cottage records some decent use (~2000) on taginfo, although it is currently lacking a wiki page. (You can fix it!)
I’ve mapped dozens of such settlements across Serbia, with varying degrees of development and urbanization (but I didn’t go deeper than landuse=residential or allotments, whichever fits better). Some even lack a proper name – often, their addresses read something like Vikend naselje ‘weekend settlement’ as the street name. For those that do have a name, I often have a problem which place tag to use, since most of existing ones don’t really fit; they usually end up as a hamlet or a neighbourhood.
Accommodation intended as holiday accommodation, such as caravan sites (made up of static caravans) often have planning restrictions to prevent them being permanently occupied. I believe that many close for a month during January.
It does seem there are (at least) two aspects to these which might be specifically tagged: their “legal jurisdiction,” tagging, like whether they are codified in law to only be occupied part-time (for example) and their place / address / grouping / blocking / agglomeration tagging (hamlet seems too big, isolated_dwelling too small in most cases).
For the latter, place=city_block (if applicable) or place=plot (if applicable) might work. For the former, I think we’d need to invent / “coin” a new tag, although it would vary a lot based on the law / restrictions / specific behavior allowing one to dwell there (and when) that is pertinent to the specific place. It seems a stub for a new key/subkey Proposal, values being jurisdiction-specific.
in OpenStreetMap place tagging, any place too big for isolated_dwelling is (at least) a hamlet, there is no minimum size requirement for hamlets besides being bigger than an isolated dwelling.
Yes, that is a goal. So far, however, this tag has been used in the UK, for example, for plots with only one building on them.
That’s why we should discuss this beforehand, to avoid accidentally mislabeling any plots here.
Also, I’m not a native English speaker, so I’d appreciate the correct English term.
Not surprising as a cottage is a type of single building. And on its own it doesn’t imply anything about being a permanent residence or otherwise.
As I understand it, you are looking for a tag for an area with multiple dwellings of this type, not the individual buildings. The buildings are normal residential buildings, not really “tourist accommodation”. And you want to express the idea that legally the buildings can’t be used as permanent residences.
If I’ve got all that right, I’m not sure there is a good term in English. For Ireland at least, I am not sure that anything exactly matching this exists. There are holiday parks, holiday villages, caravan parks (which may have static caravans as @trigpoint mentioned). But I feel these are more towards the “tourism” than “residential” end of the scale and it sounds like you are looking at the latter.
I’m more concerned with actual use than with the legal definition.
These areas contain residential buildings—often somewhat smaller ones—that are primarily intended for use during vacations or on weekends. They serve as a form of local recreation.
Would you be more inclined to go along with that, @alan_gr, if we used “weekend_cottages” as a tag for such landuse=residential cases?
Like @stevea, I could also see adding an additional place=recreation_area or something similar for labeling such settlements.
Yes there is: tourism=chalet is for chalets/cottages one can rent from the landowner. Holiday homes are privately owned, generally can be used at the owners’ whim, the zone is often fairly large, and in most of the world there is no legal limitation as to permanent residence. But, for example, in Serbia and surrounding countries, there usually are other legal limitations: in the legally-designated “weekend housing” zone where I own a (still empty) plot, the home may not exceed 60 m2 of living space, it must be single-storey, and the plot must be larger than 800 m2. Et cetera, but you get the point.
Would it be a good idea to also create a value in the building= key for such buildings? Examples are residential buildings on allotments, Danish sommerhus, Russian datcha, etc.
building values are about building typologies, ic a datcha can be recognized as a distinct type, you could tag it with a specific building value (IMHO beneficial).