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Drawing attention to significant parts of multi location inscriptions

 
 
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Author elsslots
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#16 | Posted: 3 Mar 2026 05:37 | Edited by: elsslots 
MoPython:
What about the possibility to switch?

Yes this is a long term plan (so you can choose your own filters for the map), but it will take a while to implement

But it would still need a good selection of prime locations to mark (which is the subject of this topic).
For the WWI memorials, it could mean that the number of dots on the country maps would reduce from 139 to 31, and for the Pile Dwellings from 111 to 9. (there are multiple countries involved here, so it will be even less per country)

Only having one is silly, IMHO. You miss out on so much and it does not help at all with your travels if the only surviving location is near Madrid and you are visiting Barcelona which has a good component as well.

Author JanWillem
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#17 | Posted: 9 Mar 2026 22:44 | Edited by: JanWillem 
The discussion on 'multi location inscription' made me have a look at the location images for St. Petersburg. To the long-term members here, this may not be anything new, but I couldn't find that the following is already mentioned elsewhere on the forum:

While there are 112 different locations recognised, a number are subzones or maybe even 'point locations' within a larger core zone. To illustrate my confusion: I first noticed how the location photo of Catharina Palace was not connected to the location 24 "Historical Centre of the Town of Pushkin, including the Catherine Palace", but instead to location 94 "The Palaces and Parks Ensembles of the Town of Pushkin (Tzarskoe Selo)". So my first thoughts were: something must be wrong here. But then I saw that location 94 is 'element 540-006' on the Unesco-map, which – among a few others – includes 'element 540-006a', that is our location 24.

So then, to stick with this example, is it fair to say that the current five locations 540-006, 540-006a, 540-006b, 540-006c and 540-006d, are actually only four locations? Or should this even count as just one? Five definitely seems at least one too many, but when we go with 'just one', there is a chance that St. Petersburg will drop from the list with more than 50 locations.

I think I will leave the complete check and decision to the designated future core-zone-mapper.

Author elsslots
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#18 | Posted: 10 Mar 2026 09:28 
JanWillem:
So then, to stick with this example, is it fair to say that the current five locations 540-006, 540-006a, 540-006b, 540-006c and 540-006d, are actually only four locations? Or should this even count as just one? Five definitely seems at least one too many, but when we go with 'just one', there is a chance that St. Petersburg will drop from the list with more than 50 locations.

Looking at the official map (page 34), 540-006 etc indeed is only drawn as 1 component. However, this is not routinely true for the others. It gave me a headache already looking at the maps. I think there are still over 50 in them, including small batteries on islands

Author Jurre
Partaker
#19 | Posted: 22 Mar 2026 12:00 | Edited by: Jurre 
Since we talked about the Funerary and memory sites of the First World War here, I'll write my point down here.

I was reading about the different components in the Nomination file, and came across the site of Mondement-Montgivroux. The description on our map in the site stated: "A monumental landmark designed by Henri Giraud marking the First Battle of the Marne (1914), which saved Paris and fundamentally changed the war's trajectory."

However, the nomination file does not talk about the monumental landmark, but about the little church and its graveyard that are situated adjacent to the landmark. And when we look at the core zone on the map, we also see that the landmark isn't included in the core zone.

Therefore:
- the description should be changed
- the marker should be placed on the church and not on the landmark
- the landmark should be indicated as a place of interest outside the core zone

Author elsslots
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#20 | Posted: 22 Mar 2026 15:54 | Edited by: elsslots 
Good find, Jurre
You are right, of course.
There are some other odd things with this one. The official location (as listed in the nom file) is somewhere else altogether.
Also, it had been classified Tier 2, but without any specific features, it would be better at T3.

I will change it
New text description, freely after the nom file text: "Features a communal cemetery containing a representative mass grave and a rare, hand-drawn 1914 battlefield burial map preserved within the local church. They serve as a poignant 'on-the-spot' record of the immense losses sustained during the First Battle of the Marne."

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