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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 thyristan »

rob74 wrote: post #164
Flightmussy wrote: post #126

Hi thanks for the feedback and thank you Marklit to submit it here! Thecastlemap.com is one of the websites I operate. I also operate trainrouter.com, sunshineatlas.com. and europebeachmap.com. Honestly, I did not want to focus too much on this website due to what I thought of a market of low demand. However, there are so many critical comments. Hence, I will fix it properly and this will be one of the websites I wil…

Nice project, but unfortunately (as others have also commented) a bit incomplete. Some stuff missing in Romania (which I'm reasonably familiar with): - Arad fortress (similar to Alba Iulia, but less well known, currently a military base): https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2Dw3W2CKCpU7cJA7 - Oradea fortress (same as above, but open to the public): https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2Dw3W2CKCpU7cJA7 - Târgu Mureș fortress (slightly small…

There is a lot of stuff missing. I'm from a region in Germany where every other village has it's own castle, ruin or palace. There needs to be some selection, otherwise it's just more overwhelming. Therefore I do like the map, and it's very good imho that there is some tier-selector to pick out the good ones.

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

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Post by speedgoose »

mamonoleechi wrote: post #158
ChrisGreenHeur wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the point of the x at the end?

it shows the plural, un chapeau, des chapeaux -> one hat, hats

But you don’t pronounce it and in your example you know it’s plural without the x.

I would say it’s technical debt but rest assured that the language is alive and will eventually drop the x. Perhaps we will have a s instead of a x first.

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

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Post by speedgoose »

ainiriand wrote: post #157
Bedon292 wrote: post #66

Cool idea, horrible dataset. Its limited to things in Wikidata rather than using OSM, and it must have an article on Wikipedia in English to count so I am sure it is missing just based on that. And somehow it misses many castles (and other categories it includes) which do meet those requirements. There is no definition of what they use to categorize anything either. And it clearly isn't applied consistently. There is…

In Castilla y León it is showing 9 castles and we have more than 300, hence the name Castilla...

We can see it as a curated collection of castles.

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

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Post by soco »

rob74 wrote: post #164
Flightmussy wrote: post #126

Hi thanks for the feedback and thank you Marklit to submit it here! Thecastlemap.com is one of the websites I operate. I also operate trainrouter.com, sunshineatlas.com. and europebeachmap.com. Honestly, I did not want to focus too much on this website due to what I thought of a market of low demand. However, there are so many critical comments. Hence, I will fix it properly and this will be one of the websites I wil…

Nice project, but unfortunately (as others have also commented) a bit incomplete. Some stuff missing in Romania (which I'm reasonably familiar with): - Arad fortress (similar to Alba Iulia, but less well known, currently a military base): https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2Dw3W2CKCpU7cJA7 - Oradea fortress (same as above, but open to the public): https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2Dw3W2CKCpU7cJA7 - Târgu Mureș fortress (slightly small…

As the other commenter said: Europe is filled to the brim with fortifications and castles. It's almost pointless to make a complete map - every second place will have one. So I agree with the approach of having a selection. But how to select? Here of course everybody will disagree - on one hand we surely have the obvious and well known tourist hotspots, but on the other hand basically everything else can fall under "hidden gems". Transylvania only has over 150 such fortified churches... what can you do with so much raw information?

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

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Post by lo_zamoyski »

thyristan wrote: post #171
rob74 wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice project, but unfortunately (as others have also commented) a bit incomplete. Some stuff missing in Romania (which I'm reasonably familiar with): - Arad fortress (similar to Alba Iulia, but less well known, currently a military base): https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2Dw3W2CKCpU7cJA7 - Oradea fortress (same as above, but open to the public): https://maps.app.goo.gl/a2Dw3W2CKCpU7cJA7 - Târgu Mureș fortress (slightly small…

There is a lot of stuff missing. I'm from a region in Germany where every other village has it's own castle, ruin or palace. There needs to be some selection, otherwise it's just more overwhelming. Therefore I do like the map, and it's very good imho that there is some tier-selector to pick out the good ones.

The trouble is that the definition of "castle" varies considerably between countries. For instance, the German classification divides them into "Schloss" and "Burg", but these can include anything from earthworks to barely present ruined remains of a foundation to buildings that resemble a larger than average house. French classification - under the term "chateau" and its subdivisions - is even more generous. Compare that with the Polish classification which is more strict and precise, differentiating between manors, palaces, strongholds, and permanent fortified complexes, for instance.

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

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Post by dmblit »

Flightmussy wrote: post #126

Hi thanks for the feedback and thank you Marklit to submit it here! Thecastlemap.com is one of the websites I operate. I also operate trainrouter.com, sunshineatlas.com. and europebeachmap.com. Honestly, I did not want to focus too much on this website due to what I thought of a market of low demand. However, there are so many critical comments. Hence, I will fix it properly and this will be one of the websites I wil…

Hi there and thank you, I guess we all love castles.

Just went to check a few randomly and saw the map lacks the Citadel of Acre, which is really quite impressive https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g297736-d324... (It's in Akko, northern Israel)

hope that will help you find and fix some other misses in your dataset.

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

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Post by Flightmussy »

Flightmussy wrote: post #126

Hi thanks for the feedback and thank you Marklit to submit it here! Thecastlemap.com is one of the websites I operate. I also operate trainrouter.com, sunshineatlas.com. and europebeachmap.com. Honestly, I did not want to focus too much on this website due to what I thought of a market of low demand. However, there are so many critical comments. Hence, I will fix it properly and this will be one of the websites I wil…

Again! Thank you everyone! The feedback really helps.

I am slowly but surely fixing based from the feedback I get here om Hacker News.

I am citing the users on the changelog a way to show my thanks: https://thecastlemap.com/changelog/

I am going outside to stay out in the sun for a bit now:)

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