On 2015-10-11 08:25, Mateusz Konieczny wrote : > Castle as in "a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the > Middle East during the Middle Ages by nobility". > > Unfortunately obvious historic=castle fails - as it is defined and > used as "(often fortified) buildings from medieval and modern times" > and includes nearly everything - for example "Representative building > without functional defenses.". (see > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dcastle ). IMHO, defining too specific objects, and more and more of them, is a mistake. The first problem with castles is to call them historic. Under the thread "château" I pointed out that there are buildings that can be called château ≃ castle and that are not historic at all. Should we define castle attributes for historic castles and then more or less the same attributes for less or not at all historic ones under another object name or instead use a single object? I notice that since that discussion there is not yet a way to tag those châteaux (consequently, I stopped tagging the list I had of them). I picked just one at random <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_Latour> and I see that it is tagged building=yes. <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1914563248> If that's how to recognize a château, there is a huge number of them!
I suggest that a castle/château/whatever should be building=castle historic=yes/no/??? if castle is or not [castle:]château=yes if the castle is of that type building:hotel=yes if a "retired" castle was (totally or partly) fitted as a hotel castle:winery=yes if the castle is used to produce wine etc... And whatever attributes we can agree upon. And regarding the definition of castle itself, one may try to make a broad definition such a a living place that's not a small one, or a building similar to one. But, after all, isn't the simplest, after such a broad definition, to add "any building that meets one of the attributes that follow" and hence to make the definition extensible by adding attributes? And to answer Pieren: no, a "château d'eau" is not a castle, it's a tower (obviously). Cheers André.
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