On 15/10/2014, Martin Vonwald <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-10-14 23:31 GMT+02:00 moltonel 3x Combo <[email protected]>: >> Finding the tomb you want in a cemetery is *hard* and I'd love to be >> able to use OSM for it (probably via a specialized smartphone app). A >> particular tomb is like any POI, OSM should enable me to find it. Not >> all cemeteries are well organised enough to have grave or even row >> numbers. This is not only about noteworthy people either, one should >> be able to map a cemetery exhaustively. >> > > Simple question: why? > > If those are relatives of you, you should know where they are buried. If > not, you should not care. Really not.
True personal story: I wanted to visit my grandfather's grave but never found it in the cemetery. My memory of the burial was lacking, there was no on-site map, I'm not very comfortable talking with that side of the familly, and it was only a serendipitous visit. In my experience, on-site cemetery maps are rare, but I'm sure it differs from one country to the next. Of course there's also the case of famous people's graves being visited by lots of non-relatives, like many in the "Cimetière Père Lachaise" in Paris, but that's another story. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
