On 6 April 2010 11:21, Tobias Knerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Markus Lindholm wrote: >> A question, what's the story behind the game:patrizer2:* tags? I just >> noticed that Stockholm got a bunch of these tags and I'm curious what >> they are? > > "Patrizier 2" is a German trading simulation computer game. It was > internationally released as "Patrician II" (and re-released together > with an expansion as "Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse"[1]). > > The game has a historical setting and features cities that were > influential during the Hanseatic period. In the game, cities produce > trading goods with varying efficiency. For example, Stockholm produces a > lot of iron ore ("Eisenerz") and some fish. > > Apparently, this mapper decided to tag the production efficiencies to > the cities' place nodes - which happens to be possible because the game > uses real-world places. The data represented by the tags, though, has > in-game relevance only. > > Tobias Knerr > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrician_III:_Rise_of_the_Hanse >
Thanks for the info. My second question then --- is this kosher? Populating the OSM database with some game related info? Regards Markus _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
