[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> On 10/20/2010 12:57 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alex Mauer<hawke at hawkesnest.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> (4) some people correctly use the place=* tag to reflect the government
>>> of
>>> a place rather than the population because they put the population in the
>>> population=* tag.
>>
>> Fixed for you.
>
> Sorry, but no.  Please RTFM as I suggested [1].

I did and saw no guidelines for the US. I looked at existing tagging
and there was no standard (population-based for nodes but type of
government-based for areas).