bivallate is the technical term for a double ring fort The Archaeological survey people might have some insight on the rath/dún/lios/caiseal category
Colm On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, 17:36 Brian Hollinshead, <br...@hollinshead.net> wrote: > Some time ago I had discussion the Archaeological survey Ireland concerning > our possible use of their open data. At that time their cc-by ? was not > quite enough open for OSM use as there were two sticking points. Dacor has > ironed these out in the meantime and kindly made sample acceptances > available. > > I will now re-open discussion with them. > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 17:22, moltonel 3x Combo <molto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 06/09/2018, Rory McCann <r...@technomancy.org> wrote: > > > I mapped a lot with historical=earthworks earthworks=rath. A few years > > > brianh came up with a tagging scheme for historic objects like that in > > > Ireland, and that was the tagging for ringforts, so I used that. I have > > > no strong attachment to it, and would be willing to change to something > > > else. > > > > Thanks. I've gone ahead with some earthworks->fortification retaging > > in Kilkenny : https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62348383 > > > > * I've removed the " (rath)" that was sometimes appended to the name. > > It should probably go in name:ga but I haven't the skill. > > * Some notes refer to the ringfort as "plough-leveled", maybe that's a > > better wording than "razed" for the ringfort_type key ? > > * It would be nice to tag forts that consist of multiple rings, like > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/538754476, but I'm not sure that > > ringfort_type=dun is the right choice. > > * Not all earthwork is a ringfort, see > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/536904479 - I guess this should also > > change from earthworks=motte to fortification_type=hill_fort, like > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/357271010 ? > > > > > > > The Archeological Survey of Ireland has all these (and more!) mapped, > > > and I believe there's some attempt to ask the Dept Culture, Heritage & > > > Gaeltacht to open that out, but nothing yet. That would certainly aid > > > mapping. > > > > > > https://www.archaeology.ie/archaeological-survey-ireland > > > > Is it worth pinging them again ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ie mailing list > > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie > _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
