[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
> On 10/20/2010 01:08 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>
> You saw guidelines for OSM, and apparently took it upon yourself to ignore
> them because you’re interested in the US.

No, I saw guidelines for "most OSM communities of most Western
countries" and followed the directions on the wiki, which are to
"check the country pages on this wiki". I did and saw no US standards.
So I checked existing nodes and ways, and standards differed.