Hi!
The discussion has died down again. Much was said and I even had the impression
that there was a little progress in some details. But, as usual, we don't have
a result.
Therefore I have started a consolidation page in the wiki to collect the
problems, use cases and ideas for resolving the
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> A walled town called burg in English
> would be a Stadtburg (burgartig befestigte Stadt) in German, and is
> perfectly corresponding (though not all walled towns are burgs, again
> depends on typology/construction date).
Exactly. A burg in English is a "Stadtburg" in German. Which is not t
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> > Corrected sentence from above: There is no need to use Burg, hrad,
> linna, Chateau fort, zamek etc. with roughly the same meaning when you can
> describe all of them adequeately as a castle with defensive character.
>
> that's why there is one single suggestion for them:
> "castle_type
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> I was trying to say that if I wanted to visit European
> castle_type=defensive I could but if they are referred to as a berg in
> Germany, a blah in France and as summat else in another country I will
> soon end up with a very messy and confusing list. Because if I don't
> know the local de
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> Burg: a fortress or a walled town
> (according to my 1990 vintage Chambers English Dictionary).
>
> So I'd say the English for burg is burg, and yes this is pointless.
Actually, this is a false friend. A Burg is a considerably smaller
fortification than a fortress (Festung in German) and
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> > In my opinion it is just the same for castles. You see the tag
> > catle_type=defensive and you know that it is a Burg in Germany and a
> keep in
> > Britain. There is no need to use Burg, hrad, linna, Chateau, zamek etc.
> with
> > roughly the same meaning.
>
> well, the confusion just
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> I am not quite shure if this is pointless or not. I mean, we are
> actually lacking an english term to distinguish between some types of
> castles and you suggest to select a random english word (that more or
> less matches what you want to express) to define it? Help me: Why
> don't we us
Hello!
On the Wiki-Page for the tag historic=castle [1], a tagging scheme for castles,
palaces and fortifications has appeared. Unfortunately, discussion on that page
has died down. As I believe that the topic requires quite some more attention
and the values seem to have appeared without a pr
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sylvain letuffe schrieb:
> Maybe we could share coding power, configuration power, network ressource
> power as I'm working on a similar project :
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking_Map#OpenHikingMap
> ( just over the comment you just added )
I'll be happy to share whatever resourc
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Simon Ward schrieb:
>> You can have a look at an early draft here: http://www.nop.onpw.de/.
>
> That map looks great, especially noticing the lovely hill‐shading there.
Thank you. Suggestions for improvements are always welcome.
>> So do you have any recommendations for me on where to f
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