[Tagging] change recommendation from "depth" to "length" for the adit length?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2017-05-15 14:52 GMT+02:00 Zecke <zecke at historic.place>:

> Well, I'm no native English speaker, so I have to rely on what they're
> saying. I found however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adit
> So they write:
> An *adit* (from Latin *aditus*, entrance)[1]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adit#cite_note-ac-1> is an entrance to an underground
> mine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_mine> which is horizontal
> or nearly horizontal,[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adit#cite_note-2>
> by which the mine can be entered, drained of water,[3]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adit#cite_note-3> ventilated, and minerals
> extracted at the lowest convenient level.
>



yes, this doesn't imply a node, it is using the word "entrance" for the
whole "tunnel", similarly like we do in German (Zugang can be both, a
punctual feature or a linear feature). Wikipedia also states that
exploration is another kind of adit, the German version has an illustration
that shows that the adit can also be the whole mine in some cases (at least
initially): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stolln.jpg

Cheers,
Martin
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