[Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

[Alex Mauer]

On 10/21/2010 08:15 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> Maine still has unincorporated cartesian townships with names like
> "Township 7 Range 4".
> This is timber country with few permanent settlements.
>   A few have recieved names, likely by incorporation (idk).

 From my quick understanding, those would be “unorganized territory” [1].
I think they may be survey townships, which are not part of OSM’s 
admin_level because they are not administrative boundaries.

1. 
http://www.maine.gov/revenue/propertytax/unorganizedterritory/unorganized.htm