[OSM-talk] How to tag properties

[Steve Bennett]

I have a couple of recurrent scenarios:
1) After tagging a building, I want to define the property boundary
that the building sits in. In some cases, there's a landuse tag
(landuse=commercial, residential), but how to tag a non-profit bowling
club, a school, ...? Do you simply tag it amenity=school? It feels
like there ought to be a landuse=* tag to cover all land, everywhere.
2) Sometimes there is one occupied block in the middle of large areas
of nothingness. I want to tag the block to show that there is
something there - ie, it's not unmapped. landuse=residential seems to
state "this area is zoned residential, there are houses here", whereas
I want to specifically identify one block.
2b) Sometimes I don't even know whether it's residential, industrial,
a farm, etc. But again, I want to mark *something* to fill in that
vast expanse of white...

Steve