[OSM-newbies] Access designation for private cemetery roads

Tsvi Mostovicz ttmost at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 13:03:26 GMT 2009


On Thursday 10 December 2009 14:00:04 newbies-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:

> Who in their right mind would go to a cemetery after dark anyway?
> 
> -- Morten

Well, in Jerusalem it is customary not  to let the deceased "sleep over". 
Meaning the moment it is possible they'll bury the deceased even if that means 
burying him/her at 2 am. Many a time was I witness to late-night burials of 
relatives. I don't know if this custom exists also in other Jewish 
communities, to the best of my knowledge this is a Jerusalem-only custom.

In any case people won't go "visit" the cemetery at night. So the question 
seems still appropriate.

-- Tsvi




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