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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 02:00, St Niklaas <<a href="mailto:st.niklaas@live.nl" target="_blank">st.niklaas@live.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Your text or proposal seems to be focused on modern times.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Yes, that's right, as it's intended for current, active, military establishments only.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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Since every town (vesting) or fortress (fort) has its own barracks in the past</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, but they are (usually) no longer a military area, so to my mind shouldn't be mapped as landuse=military?</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>I did earlier raise the question of how to deal with historical sites such as the ones you pointed out?</div><div><br></div><div>"Ex-military bases, now often either historical precincts / tourist attractions / possibly ruins only eg Fort Lytton <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-27.41058/153.15263" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/-27.41058/153.15263</a>, <a href="https://fortlytton.org.au/" target="_blank">https://fortlytton.org.au/</a> & many more similar worldwide. They were, but are not now military areas, so how should we tag them? <br><div>museum + tourist attraction + was:landuse=military + was:military=base, or ignore all reference to "military"?"</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>We could also include "historic=fort" <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dfort">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dfort</a> but that also says "a military fort: a stand-alone defensive structure which differs from a
castle in that there is no permanent residence. There may have been
temporary housing for the crew", which I have some issues with? <br></div><div><br></div><div>(& I can already hear Paul saying just because it's old doesn't necessarily make it historic! :-))<br></div><div><br></div>
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<div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>
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