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Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

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Re: Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

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Post by monknomo »

carra wrote: post #82
mxfh wrote: post #27

If you submit some map, at least don't have the title contradict the content description: "the 2,435 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership." or someone fix the title here please to what on the app right now: "Map of the world's great castles & fortresses" whatever that means. Germany's Saxony alone has 700+ fortications with about 100 being…

I would take it as just rounding 2,435 -> 2,400. No big deal.

The point is not the rounding, it is that it is not counting a total number of castles, but rather some subset of 'significant' castles

Re: Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

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Post by 4ndrewl »

AStrangeMorrow wrote: post #63
clickety_clack wrote: post #24

This is off by many degrees of magnitude for Ireland at least: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nkvqd7/oc...

Same for France and Spain, which is what I am familiar with. I am expecting it to be true all around. The map of France shows maybe 100 castles? If you include castles, forts and chateaux (which it seems the map aims to do) France has around 45000 of them, including 15k medieval castles (military), an other 15k from the Renaissance period (mix of military and luxury), and 20k more recent ones (some military, many lux…

Missing all of the "moorish" forts in Andalusia...

Re: Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

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Post by bootlooped »

Romario77 wrote: post #71
mxfh wrote: post #27

If you submit some map, at least don't have the title contradict the content description: "the 2,435 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership." or someone fix the title here please to what on the app right now: "Map of the world's great castles & fortresses" whatever that means. Germany's Saxony alone has 700+ fortications with about 100 being…

not really castles - it includes palaces for examples and chateaus.

I find the word "castle" can be a little vague, like with Neuschwanstein Castle, which is really more of a palace. I don't think it's worth battling too much about what is or isn't a castle. I don't think you could come up with one set of castles in the world that satisfies everybody.

Re: Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

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Post by NicuCalcea »

yabones wrote: post #56

Not sure if they count, but the site appears to be missing loads of British star-forts built around the great lakes, st. lawrence, and eastern Canada! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadel_Hill_(Fort_George) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Island_(Nova_Scotia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadelle_of_Quebec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Fort_Erie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Anne They built these th…

I imagine they only downloaded whatever was tagged as "castle" in wikidata. Compare these two:

Bran Castle: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q390275

Citadel Hill: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q321867

Re: Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

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Post by insane_dreamer »

Great project! Kudos to the designer.

Might need additional datasets though -- this one is lacking. only ~10 fortresses in France? LOL

The fortress / castle distinction is quite difficult and perhaps not useful? This map classifies the Crac (Krak) des Chevaliers[0], in modern-day Syria, as a "castle" but I would argue it's really a "fortress" (and in fact, one of the best preserved ancient fortresses in the world).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak_des_Chevaliers

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