[OSM-talk] How I got here

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Thu Jan 19 07:43:31 GMT 2012


Nick Hocking wrote:
>
> What are your feelings about putting individual gravestone info into
> OSM such as the persons name and maybe date and grave location
> (row, number ???).  It would be good for searching and to get the
> same sat nav, that got you to the cemetry, to walk you to the grave
> itself.
> Does this data belong in OSM or should it be a seperate layer
> looked after by Genealogists somewhere else.

This is exactly the sort of secondary data that it WOULD be nice to have a home 
for. It's nice to hear more and more genealogists getting involved as it was the 
main reason I started playing. I'm more interested in the development of 
locations where my ancestors lived, but increasingly local genealogy groups ARE 
at least indexing cemetery's and having a single common site/standard for 
presenting that data makes perfect sense. I am a little surprised that none of 
the commercial genealogical data companies have got on the bandwagon yet, but 
the 'spirit of cooperation' that OSM fosters should ensure that all of this data 
is freely available especially when it's based on the freely donated work of others!

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