On 06/09/2018, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I mapped a lot with historical=earthworks earthworks=rath. A few years
> brianh came up with a tagging scheme for historic objects like that in
> Ireland, and that was the tagging for ringforts, so I used that. I have
> no strong attachment to it, and would be willing to change to something
> else.

Thanks. I've gone ahead with some earthworks->fortification retaging
in Kilkenny : https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/62348383

* I've removed the " (rath)" that was sometimes appended to the name.
It should probably go in name:ga but I haven't the skill.
* Some notes refer to the ringfort as "plough-leveled", maybe that's a
better wording than "razed" for the ringfort_type key ?
* It would be nice to tag forts that consist of multiple rings, like
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/538754476, but I'm not sure that
ringfort_type=dun is the right choice.
* Not all earthwork is a ringfort, see
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/536904479 - I guess this should also
change from earthworks=motte to fortification_type=hill_fort, like
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/357271010 ?


> The Archeological Survey of Ireland has all these (and more!) mapped,
> and I believe there's some attempt to ask the Dept Culture, Heritage &
> Gaeltacht to open that out, but nothing yet. That would certainly aid
> mapping.
>
> https://www.archaeology.ie/archaeological-survey-ireland

Is it worth pinging them again ?

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