On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:11 PM, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
Sorry for the confusion, the wiki page was always up, the website with the
map is down.


> Its up now and I looked through it.
>
> I take it "berg" is German for castle?
>

AFAIK burg is the German word for castle (with u)  the defensive style, see
the picture under burg on that page. Berg  (with e) is mountain.

regards

m.

p.s. I only know some German from holidays and police series, so perhaps
Martin or someone else can confirm this ?
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