[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/10/20 Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>:

> Functional (subjective) tagging versus tagging to a set standard (objective)
> is one underlying reason why US highway tagging is so inconsistent--


I can't follow you here. Functional classification of inhabited places
(settlements) doesn't have to be subjective, it's the standard in
antropology / spacial planning AFAIK. Nobody (at least that's what I
hope) would be so dull to say place X has 9999 inhabitants and is
therefore a village, place y has 10001 inhabitants and is a town. And
if a family moves to place x it will become a town?

For highway-tagging (in the US): I think it needs some time to develop
a good grid, you will come to this point if you have enough mappers,
long discussions and a bit of patience ;-)

cheers,
Martin