My first dotcom began by listing German castles for sale after the wall fell. https://web.archive.org/web/19970102101502/http://www.re.com...
And if I ever make an exit, the money will buy me a Germany castle! I want to be a good guardian of one.
Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
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#102Interesting, still I miss most castles around me.
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#103Is this anything more substantial than a weekend-coded public data scrape?
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#104Is this anything more substantial than a weekend-coded public data scrape?
It's worse than that, the underlying data is more than questionable.
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#105That's less than I expected for worldwide Apparently Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc... were not really into castles, while Japan was?
It's not very comprehensive at all, the regions I know well in France are missing almost all of the actual castles. The site lists 180ish castles in France, when it's estimated there are 45,000 castles + chateaus in reality. Of course this depends on your exact definition of castle.
I wonder if it's only scraping english language Wikipedia articles?
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#106This is off by many degrees of magnitude for Ireland at least: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nkvqd7/oc...
For England as well, assuming a conservative definition like: Norman or later, mortared stone construction with remaining walls at least 4m high, not something like a fortified farm house for a single family. If you include Iron Age hill forts, the number becomes absurd.
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#107There are many castles near my parents house in france. I don't see any of them? AI generated?
thinking the same here. combining the inaccurate data with the suspicious-looking sheen to the UI makes me think it was made with an LLM.
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#108This is missing castles. There are several in and near lerici Italy not listed
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#109This 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…
and for Romania, which has far, far more than are listed
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#110Palácio da Bolsa in Porto is not, at all, a castle. It was built in the XIX century as the stock market and never served defensive purposes as castles would. Not to speak about the sheer amount of misses in Portugal. This is off by a lot!