[OSM-talk-ie] Landuse

[Marc Gemis]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
> Conversely, I've seen rough landuse=residental drawn over a few houses
> which are strung out in rural ireland. Most of the area inside the
> area is fields, not residential. That's not accurate. Map the
> individual houses, but you don't need a residential landuse for a few
> houses in rural areas.
>
> And not everywhere in OSM needs to be in a "landuse" tag.

Please explain, I am setting my first baby steps in landuse mapping
and want to know what I should do ?  I have heard other opinions as
well, but I'm interested why we should not cover the globe with
landuse/landcover/natural tags.
Isn't every land in use ? How can we calculate the total amount of
square meters of land used for living if you do not draw a
landuse=residential around each small group of houses ?

regards

m

p.s. In Belgium we usually do not have housing estates with a name. So
we need different criteria anyhow on when we draw a
landuse=residential area.