I know osm.wiki/How_to_map_landuse exists, but I’ve got a separate question…

Basically, is it intended for landuse to eventually cover the whole entire globe, so that every available spot of land is marked as either residential, commercial, parkland, or water, etc? Or should landuse only cover a few areas, while the vast majority of the map is left as “standard” empty grey?

The European countries seem to have a lot more landuse cover than the US, so should I use them as an example?

The “residential” landuse is what’s confusing me here, in particular, because I could mark vast swaths of the map (think apartment blocks, suburban neighborhoods) as “residential”, or I could leave them unmarked. Same goes for things like “forest” and “farmland”… should all woods and fields be marked with landuse, or just left empty? Not sure what the usual approach is.

Is there anything that can be done about un-rendered elements? For many OSM features, the data is there, but it doesn’t get rendered on the map.

As far as I can tell, this happens with:

• All the Offices
• Many Man-Made nodes: like Sirens, Tanks, and Pipelines
• Parking Entrance nodes
• Flagpoles

Can we do anything to fix this? I understand why unimportant features like sirens, flagpoles, and pipelines would be removed; but things like Offices and Parking Entrances seem rather significant.

(This is my first time posting, I hope I haven’t broken any rules…)