[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[Alex Mauer]

On 10/20/2010 12:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote:
> On 10/20/2010 11:53 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote:
>> Well, additional reasons for the density of place names in some
>> regions, and the sparsity in other regions, are: (1) not all of the
>> US uses the same hierarchy of administrative units; (2) some parts of
>> the US are much more densely occupied than others; and (3) the
>> administrative units in the western US tend to be much larger than in
>> the eastern US.
>
> (4) some people incorrectly use the place=* tag to reflect the
> government of a place rather than the population because they didn’t RTFM.
>
> (5) Some of the OSM data is incorrect.
>
> (6) OSM’s displayed label sizes and the level at which they’re shown are
> just stupidly high. (i.e. you have to zoom in ridiculously far before
> you can see anything.)

(7) Neither Mapnik nor Osmarender can handle labeling cities which are 
stored as multipolygons.  They only know how to deal with nodes.