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  • Very cool project, but obviously missing (too) many great castles. I'm not sure if that way of measuring popularity is really well done.
    by runxel
  • Clearly vibe-coded. Cool idea though. I can see what was leveraged from the Wikipedia data set.

    Side question: why does Claude prefer dark backgrounds with low-contrast text?

    by Yhippa
  • Nice project :3

    There's a MASSIVE amount of castles missing

    Just for France, the castle visible on the map -> this is not even 5%

    Depending on the count it goes from 20000 castles to 45000 (just for France!)

    by mrjay42
  • Nice project, but what is "hidden" gem about Elmina castle in Ghana?

    If Cape Coast Castle is described as "world renowned", then Elmina should be as well. I live in Ghana their popularity is almost evenly matched.

    Also Elmina castle is the oldest and largest European building in existence in sub-Saharan Africa.

    One more thing, it is kind of hard to click on specific dots when they are so clustered together. I had to zoom in a lot to see and be able to click on some of the castles I knew were there.

    by prmph
  • This is off by many degrees of magnitude for Ireland at least: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nkvqd7/oc...
    by clickety_clack
  • Interesting but very difficult to perform in the right way. Example: Italy has maybe 45k buildings that could show on that map https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Castelli_d%27Italia but they can't be collected by looking at the English Wikipedia so it's almost empty compared to what could be. Other countries, same problem.

    Somebody suggested in other comments that the data could be from OpenStreetMap. Or let people add their own castles, but then you have all the sort of problems of content moderation.

    by pmontra
  • Cool idea, horrible dataset. Its limited to things in Wikidata rather than using OSM, and it must have an article on Wikipedia in English to count so I am sure it is missing just based on that. And somehow it misses many castles (and other categories it includes) which do meet those requirements.

    There is no definition of what they use to categorize anything either. And it clearly isn't applied consistently. There is a Château category and yet many things with Château in their name are tagged as castles.

    by Bedon292
  • Hi thanks for the feedback and thank you Marklit to submit it here!

    Thecastlemap.com is one of the websites I operate. I also operate trainrouter.com, sunshineatlas.com. and europebeachmap.com.

    Honestly, I did not want to focus too much on this website due to what I thought of a market of low demand. However, there are so many critical comments. Hence, I will fix it properly and this will be one of the websites I will fully commit to.

    I appreciate everything guys even if you probably do not like the website. The reason why I made the website is because I reallly like castles....

    by Flightmussy

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