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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 15.05.2017 um 14:37 schrieb Andy
Townsend:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/05/2017 12:59, Zecke wrote:<br>
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An "adit" is by definition an <i>entrance </i>to a
subterranean gallery or drift. <br>
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Er, no - at least not according to my understanding of the term as
it is used locally to me in England. <br>
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Well, after some googling it seems you're right and the wikipedia
article is just a bit misleading. In fact it's just a copy from
encyclopedia britannica (or vice versa?).<br>
Comparing adits with drifts and galleries it seems an adit always
has a surface end whereas the others can have so but do not need? So
drift or gallery are more general and adit is more specific?<br>
Anyway the term adit seems to be used often enough as a synonym for
the adit mouth, probably as most people don't have access to the
interior.<br>
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Same in German, where people are talking about "Stollen" when they
just mean the "Stollenmundloch"<br>
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So I would be very reluctant to re-defining the established OSM
tagging here.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Carsten<br>
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