[Tagging] game:patrizer2:* tags

[Tobias Knerr]

Markus Lindholm wrote:
> A question, what's the story behind the game:patrizer2:* tags? I just
> noticed that Stockholm got a bunch of these tags and I'm curious what
> they are?

"Patrizier 2" is a German trading simulation computer game. It was
internationally released as "Patrician II" (and re-released together
with an expansion as "Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse"[1]).

The game has a historical setting and features cities that were
influential during the Hanseatic period. In the game, cities produce
trading goods with varying efficiency. For example, Stockholm produces a
lot of iron ore ("Eisenerz") and some fish.

Apparently, this mapper decided to tag the production efficiencies to
the cities' place nodes - which happens to be possible because the game
uses real-world places. The data represented by the tags, though, has
in-game relevance only.

Tobias Knerr

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrician_III:_Rise_of_the_Hanse