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 proposal or vote, I'd like to
address it again.
My main criticism on the suggested values like "castle_type=Burg" for a
fortified castle is breaking OSM convention and using local language values
even though in my opinion a proper English value can be found for all of the
mentioned objects. I took the liberty of adding such values.
I disagree with the argumentat that such tags were not scientifically accurate
enough. Most commonly used tags have a mild degree of abstraction. E.g. there
are considerable differences between a German Autobahn and a British Motorway,
but still it is not "properly" tagged as highway=Autobahn.
I consider the use of such local language values harmful in an international
project - and completely unnecessary in this case.
bye
Nop
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dcastle
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