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Tag for a military battery

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How to tag an abandoned / disused : military emplacement or former battery ? here https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.88183/5.12004 With a bunker / shelter nearby on the west side of the dike.

asked 01 Aug '21, 11:16

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This one, i guess was a gun emplacement tagged as a bunker. there is another to south east. I would have expected historic= bucker or battery or gun emplacement. I couldn't find them in taginfo. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/36.00184/-5.61131&layers=N

answered 01 Aug '21, 12:40

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edited 01 Aug '21, 12:53

Hendrikklaas thanks for links. England still has some WW2 "Pill Boxes" that guarded major routes. They would have sheltered people armed with small arms not heavy field guns. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillbox_(military)

(01 Aug '21, 20:01) andy mackey

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