Javbw
> On Oct 16, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I d call the hearst residence at least a villa, if castle doesn't find > agreement. A villa or mansion or something more than a common house - but... It just feels weird to tag a more modern structure never used as a castle as a castle. You are right - the duck test tells me it is an imposing historic building. And yea, it looks a bit like a castle and is named "castle" - like the disney castle - but it's style is to mimic a castle - it was never meant to really be one. It is a rich person's house. In the Ironman films, Tony Starks malibu house is similarly large, a residence for a powerful person, and very imposing. If he put a couple turrets on the top, would it be a castle? Does the style of architecture define it as a castle (which is easily replicated) - or its purpose (when active) as a true defensive fortified local/regional/national power center? This is a fabulous question. Does a building that looks like a castle but has no historical usage as a castle - nor could ever used be a castle - be tagged as a castle? No archer has ever been upon the battlements at Hearst castle nor Disneyland's castles and loose an arrow at an enemy - nor discuss african swallows and their airspeed velocity vis a vis coconuts. To me, it is a historic mansion (villa?) called "Hearst Castle". But this "style" vs purpose (active or historical) is a very interesting question to me. Javbw. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
