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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >
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