This historic places map has a list of castle types, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Historical_Objects/Karteneigenschaften There is "Shiro" in the list, which is marked a Japanese Burg.
Unfortunately, there website is out of service at the moment due to hard disk problems. regards m On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:24 PM, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 11, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Castle as in "a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the > > Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility". > > We'll have to append "and Asia" on that. There are castles all over Japan > (China too?), and I know at least one is a unesco world heritage site. > > The nice thing About Japanese castles is that they are clearly named and > clearly castles - there is very little confusion on what is a castle and > what is some other structure. > > While Himeji-jo is the most famous, I'm fond of the "Black Crow" castle - > Matsumoto-jo > > https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/javbw/11091222754/ > > Definition Attempt: > > [ > Usually an existing fortified, physically isolated (through > walls/moats/topography), and vertically dominant structure used (when > active) not only for protection of leadership, but also as a base for > controlling the surrounding area politically, economically, and militarily. > > Tagging: When still existing, castles are usually historic attractions. > If he structure is damaged beyond recognition or partially > destroyed/abandoned, then its a ruin, or if just the raised ground base of > the castle remains, just a historic attraction. Only a structure that is > whole enough to be recognized as a castle should be tagged as a castle. > Partial ruins or remaining grounds should not be tagged as a castle, but as > [insert proper ruins historic tag here]. This tag does not apply to modern > structures styled to look like a castle (Like Disneyland's). > ] > > This "raisedbase/pad" is a very common occurrence in Japan - there are > three bases of razed and deconstructed castles in my city area alone. They > are parks and/or historic sites now, not a stone left to even be a ruin. > > Javbw > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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