[OSM-talk] Castles and Palaces

[Jack Stringer]

> well, the confusion just begins to start ;-) A keep is not
> corrispondent to a burg, it is corispondent to a donjon, maybe to a
> "bergfried" in German. A keep is part of a castle, not the whole. If
> you continue to say, that burg and chateau (=schloss) has roughly the
> same meaning, you're still proofing that you should stick to
> historic=castle and let others do the castle_type.

How do historians/archaeologists log castles/ruins, what criteria are
they working from. ie its on a hill so its a hill fort, its got a moat
so its a bling blah. From a quick google I can figgure a berg is a
castle on a hill.

Why make up a new system if one already exists.



Jack