On 2/19/18 6:37 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > On 19. Feb 2018, at 22:28, Richard Welty <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> i know of examples in both italy and the US. the italian ones >> i've seen are older and thus much more sunken than the ones in the US. > > > in Italy there are also “a lot” of historic cuttings (in rock), > predating the Roman empire. > > https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tagliata+etrusca&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images > not all in rock. we saw a deeply sunken road in packed dirt at an Etruscan site in Tuscany quite a few years ago.
there are sunken roads/lanes associated with a couple of battlefields from the American Civil War, notably the one at the Antietam battlefield. these are generally of historical significance because they were handy pre-existing entrenchments that impacted the course of the battles. 100 years of use are easily enough to create a road or way that deserves to be called "sunken". richard -- [email protected] Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
