[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[Alex Mauer]

On 10/20/2010 01:06 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 2010/10/20 Alex Mauer<hawke at hawkesnest.net>:
>
>> 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!
>
>
> actually this never worked well, and in Germany and Italy people are
> not following these definitions strictly (but often they happen to be
> inside the range).
>
> It is clear that there can't be the same numbers (if numbers is the
> approach to go anyway) in the whole world, as Asian cities happen to
> be far bigger then European ones, and defining the limit by 100000
> can't work there, it's obvious.

IMO that just means that rendering needs to be based purely and directly 
on population numbers, or we need some higher numbers (1 000 000 = 
metropolis[1]  10 000 000 = megacity[2]? ) It might be useful to use a 
relation to group separate legal-cities with their core city into a 
metropolis, but that might be overcomplicating things.)

It doesn’t mean that the place=* values should be hijacked for some 
other purpose.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity