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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 kakacik »

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.

In our tiny little village of 2000 people, we have 4 small castles (chateaux). Next one also has some. So does next one.

Its fine if its not exhaustive list. All major I could think of in few european countries I could find with all info correctly. Thank you for this effort, much appreciated.

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

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Post by kakacik »

F3nd0 wrote: post #149
Rexxar wrote: post #146

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Telling that "eau" is just "o" for pronunciation confuse foreigners even more. Some of then even thinks you are mocking them.

Yet somehow French still manages to be altogether more coherent than English… or at least that’s the impression I’ve had so far.

That is an extremely strong claim that I simply cannot support. English is beautiful elegantly designed and trivial to learn compared to french.

Also, if you talk on some mid level (say B1, which takes a LOT of effort for french language), you are not going to get laughed at and ridiculed when using it in UK/US/Australia/NZ etc with english. A very common experience in France when trying to use french (I go there every other weekend, its just across the border). Folks from other parts of former french empire like quebecois or corsicans are much more approachable in this and tolerant. Suffice to say their language variant is often mocked by mainland french too, I think personally parisians are the most cocky ones.

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

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Post by rob74 »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #176
thyristan wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Sure, you could argue forever what should be included, what's significant enough (only still existing buildings or also ruins? how well-known does it have to be?), if only historical castles should be included or also things like Hearst Castle in California (which is actually a large mansion built in historical style, with the main building looking like a church - if that's included, you could also include, say, Mar-a-Lago?).

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

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Post by Flightmussy »

Flightmussy wrote: post #180
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:)

I am going to the Akershus festning! This is my local castle and the view is crazy

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

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Post by sct202 »

Stealthisbook wrote: post #138

The North American bits are a little weird. Colorado has an entry for Bent's Fort but not for Fort Vasquez, though both are rebuilt tourist attractions. Then there's Bishop's Castle, an actual norman style castle built outside of Pueblo by some crazed guy

Fort Dearborn in Chicago has a dot, even though no structure exists and it's only a series of plaques on the street now.

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

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Post by CGMthrowaway »

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…

Missing one of my favorite in USA which I will not mention here because it is unofficially open to the public and i don't want that to change...

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

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Post by uxhacker »

lo_zamoyski wrote: post #176
thyristan wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The importance of the definition is to actually save the castles. For example in Lower Silesia in Poland, which was Germany, and Czech before, there where about 2000 Castles (Schloss's). Now many of these castles lay in ruins. By only including the popular ones like this map does it means the less famous ones will become even less popular, and a piece of history will disappear.

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

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Post by uxhacker »

rob74 wrote: post #183
lo_zamoyski wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Sure, you could argue forever what should be included, what's significant enough (only still existing buildings or also ruins? how well-known does it have to be?), if only historical castles should be included or also things like Hearst Castle in California (which is actually a large mansion built in historical style, with the main building looking like a church - if that's included, you could also include, say, Mar-…

It is also important in context to include castles in Africa to show that the area did contain castles. This fact often surprises people that Africa has castles and some of them dating back to the 11 century.

For example just by looking from my eye you are missing Lamu Castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamu_Fort Siyu Fort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siyu Thimlich Ohingahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimlich_Ohinga

And then in Tanzania you have the Gerezani Fort in Kilwa Kisiwani, the Old Fort of Zanzibar, the German Fort in Bagamoyo. And then Taleh Fort in Somalia.

I have not even started on either Mozambique, or Angola.

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