On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Rory McCann <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
