[mxfh]

If you submit some map, at least don't have the title contradict the content description:

"the 2,435 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership."

or someone fix the title here please to what on the app right now:

"Map of the world's great castles & fortresses" whatever that means.

Germany's Saxony alone has 700+ fortications with about 100 being touristically interesting. In the map I count like 9.

[deepvibrations]

Yeah, actually a very cool idea. Hopefully somebody takes it and makes a greatly improved version, as execution is lacking here!

[carra]

I would take it as just rounding 2,435 -> 2,400. No big deal.

[monknomo]

The point is not the rounding, it is that it is not counting a total number of castles, but rather some subset of 'significant' castles

[schappim]

Yeah they are pretty loose w/ Castle. It is a case of "mi casa" not always "tu casa" [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_del_Fascio_(Como)

[garciansmith]

It also lists some "castles" that no longer exist, e.g., Fort Detroit, which was where downtown is and very much not extant (and not to be confused with Fort Wayne to the southwest of downtown, which does exist but isn't on the map). This is just some AI slop wasting our time.

[kevin_thibedeau]

They are including wooden palisaded forts, of there are many more in the US and Canada than shown.

[Romario77]

not really castles - it includes palaces for examples and chateaus.

[bootlooped]

I find the word "castle" can be a little vague, like with Neuschwanstein Castle, which is really more of a palace. I don't think it's worth battling too much about what is or isn't a castle. I don't think you could come up with one set of castles in the world that satisfies everybody.

[jameshart]

Neuschwanstein was completed in 1886. Undeniably a very archetypal castle. So much so that of course it was the basis for Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle, which opened at Disneyland in Anaheim in 1955 - at which time the castle it took its inspiration from was not even 70 years old.

Now Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle is itself over 70 years old, making it arguably just as much a historical 'castle' as Neuschwanstein.