Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Thomas Colson thomas_col...@nps.gov wrote: Are there any examples of detailed cemetery mapping in OSM? E.g. individual head-stones are mapped with interred information. Is this even an appropriate use of OSM? I have a cemetery mapping project with LOTS of good

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread John F. Eldredge
When you start getting to the level of information not actually on the grave marker, not to mention information about people known to be buried in the cemetery, but whose grave markers are missing or no longer legible, it makes sense to have this information in a separate database rather than

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi Thomas, It would be 100% fine putting in individual gravestones into OSM. It is an physical object that can be surveyed, does not move, and people care about it. Personally, I would enjoy mapping the locations of gravestones of loved ones, important people, kind of like a little Internet

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: Are there Smartphone apps that can do this with the help of their accelerometer? Some other type of hardware? I could point you to the professional equipment that can do this. On the cheap though, consider using a laser

Re: [Talk-us] Cemeteries in OSM?

2013-07-29 Thread Greg Morgan
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Thomas, It would be 100% fine putting in individual gravestones into OSM. It is an physical object that can be surveyed, does not move, and people care about it. Personally, I would enjoy mapping the