P.s. Citadels and fortresses were complementary for a city's defence, but
do not always coexist. Also, some fortresses have been (partially)
demolished but the citadel have been left largely intact, as is the case in
Lille, France.

Op ma 3 okt. 2022 om 22:49 schreef Casper Kersten <casperkerst...@gmail.com
>:

> @Martin Koppenhoefer That's a good question, and one I will surely address
> on the proposal page.
>
> The short answer is that a fortress is the fortified city centre with its
> city walls and defensive towers, and a citadel is a stand-alone
> fortification inside or on the edge of it.
>
> A good example is Saint-Martin-de-RĂ© (
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/46.2026/-1.3657), where the
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/308616 is the fortress and
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/35814333 is the citadel.
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Vestingwerken_schema.svg shows
> essentially the same thing.
>
> Op ma 3 okt. 2022 om 22:38 schreef Martin Koppenhoefer <
> dieterdre...@gmail.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> Am Mo., 3. Okt. 2022 um 22:30 Uhr schrieb Casper Kersten <
>> casperkerst...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I just created a proposal page to tag citadels:
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Citadel
>>> The proposed tag is castle_type=citadel.
>>>
>>> All feedback is welcome. Feel free to share it here, but I prefer to
>>> discuss the proposal on the Community Forum and on the discussion page on
>>> the Wiki.
>>>
>>> https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-proposal-to-tag-citadels/3570
>>>
>>
>>
>> can you explain how it relates to
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:castle_type%3Dfortress ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
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