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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