[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[Alex Mauer]

On 10/20/2010 11:35 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Brad Neuhauser
> <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>  From the place page:
>> "In most Western countries, the status of a location (whether it is a
>> city/town/etc.), is decided by the government, and is not a function of
>> size. ***But most OSM communities of those countries have made a convention
>> to use the population to decide which place tag to use, to ensure a more
>> common way of tagging across the globe, and not to end up with cities of
>> 1000 residents for example.***"
>
> I looked for and couldn't find anything stating that this was the US convention.

It’s an OSM convention.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place

Is there some reason it would need to be repeated over and over for 
every country?

I recognize the idea of American exceptionalism, but come on!

—Alex Mauer “hawke”