[Tagging] how to tag US townships?

[Peter Budny]

Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> writes:

> On 10/20/2010 12:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote:
>
> (7) Neither Mapnik nor Osmarender can handle labeling cities which are
> stored as multipolygons.  They only know how to deal with nodes.

Multipolygon handling is pretty bad in general, not just for city
labels.  In particular, support for multipolygons with more than one
outer way is not up to par.  (Try creating several disconnected
buildings, marking them as outer polygons and tagging the whole thing as
a building or shop, and watch them disappear from the rendering
entirely!)

You could really classify this as a subcase of "relations are not
handled very well/thoroughly".
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