There is such thing as sustainable mapping. That means, you should map things that are likely to be properly corrected when they change. A better alternative for graves would be a link to the graveyards website where there could be a list of graves.<br>
<br>Janko<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/19 LM_1 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:flukas.robot%2Bosm@gmail.com">flukas.robot+osm@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There are much less stable things than graves and tombstones being<br>
mapped. That is not really a problem.<br>
The graves are there (unlike some historical feature), easily visible,<br>
fairly stable. I do not see any reason why they should not be mapped<br>
in OSM database.<br>
They are not likely going to be rendered by any big renderer, but that<br>
does not really matter if someone wants to map them...<br>
Lukas (LM_1)<br>
<br>
2012/1/19 Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> 2012/1/19 Nick Hocking <<a href="mailto:nick.hocking@gmail.com">nick.hocking@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> mick Wrote<br>
>><br>
>> "I was pointed here by someone on the Devon list at the rootsweb genealogy "<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Hi mick<br>
>><br>
>> When I map a country town I am always on the lookout for any cemetery.<br>
>> I find some very obscure ones and always put them on the map.<br>
>><br>
>> What are your feelings about putting individual gravestone info into<br>
>> OSM such as the persons name and maybe date and grave location<br>
>> (row, number ???). It would be good for searching and to get the<br>
>> same sat nav, that got you to the cemetry, to walk you to the grave<br>
>> itself.<br>
>><br>
>> Does this data belong in OSM or should it be a seperate layer<br>
>> looked after by Genealogists somewhere else.<br>
><br>
><br>
> There is some similar data of this kind already in OSM:<br>
><br>
> - in 2008 some mappers in Berlin started mapping the graves of famous<br>
> people: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Berlin/OSM_meets_Six_Feet_Under" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Berlin/OSM_meets_Six_Feet_Under</a><br>
> (in German)<br>
> - there are some tags (e.g. tomb=war_grave) to map specific types of graves<br>
><br>
> but as far as I know there is not yet anybody mapping "ordinary"<br>
> graves (i.e. of people that are neither famous nor did they die in an<br>
> extraordinary way). One problem I'd see around here is that this kind<br>
> of data is not very stable (usually the dead remain only for 20 years<br>
> in their graves, not for eternity, but this depends on the religion<br>
> and local culture).<br>
><br>
> Keeping this data in a separate layer is suboptimal: e.g. you will<br>
> have tombs in OSM and the graves in them in another layer, now if<br>
> someone moves the tombs (to improve the position) they would move the<br>
> dead out of their tombs. Very bad for your karma...<br>
><br>
> cheers,<br>
> Martin<br>
><br>
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