Hey all, I just wanted to add a few things although I am not that active on OSM these days. The National Monuments Service seems to have open data available that includes ringforts and similar structures. I am not sure about the licence compatibility and mass importing and all that This could be a way to get the majority of ringforts into OSM considering the large number of forts. Also, the naming schemes they use are somewhat official, I suppose, and should guide OSM tagging schemes to distinguish different types of forts (distinguishing between cashels, earthworks, and raths), but I am not sure how that translates into OSM tagging. To be honest, importing this data is a massive job if you also want to consider the other archaeological structures, but in OSM features are supposed to be visible landmarks. https://data.gov.ie/dataset/national-monuments-service-archaeological-survey-of-ireland Here's an extract of that data: Enclosure Children's burial ground Enclosure Castle - unclassified Bee-boles Gateway (present location) Earthwork Castle - unclassified Mound Enclosure Enclosure Ringfort - cashel Ringfort - cashel Children's burial ground Ritual site - holy well Standing stone Earthwork Castle - tower house
What are Bee-boles anyway? .... Ahhh (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bee_bole)...sorry. Anyway, I agree with the tagging scheme in Colm's email for generic ringforts that an OSM user might want to add. I think it is best to not worry about distinguishing ringforts too much at this early stage. Brian T On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 1:52 PM Colm Moore <colmmoor...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Any update on how folk are progressing with this? > > Rory and I spent some time going through them and earthworks=rath is no more. > However, perhaps only 5% of ring forts are mapped. I find the split between > ring fort, hill fort and ring ditch seems to be somewhat nebulous, so mapping > the difference can be difficult. > > The correct tagging appears to be: > * fortification_type=ringfort > * historic=archaeological_site > * site_type=fortification > * historic:civilization=celtic <-- I've added this, Rory hasn't > > > earthworks=rath <---------------- 1248 instances - Clare and Kerry only > > fortification_type=hill_fort <---- confused use - multiple different fort > > types > > historic=fort <---- confused use - multiple different fort types > > fortification=ring_ditch <---- minor > > hillfort <---- minor > > historic=hillfort <---- minor > > historic=ring fort <---- minor > > military=fort <---- minor > > note=Ancient fort <---- minor > > note=Fort <---- minor > > note=Ring Fort? <---- minor > > ruins=fort <---- minor > > site_type=earthwork <---- minor > > site_type=enclosure <---- minor > > Colm > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
