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.
Janko 2012/1/19 LM_1 <flukas.robot+...@gmail.com> > There are much less stable things than graves and tombstones being > mapped. That is not really a problem. > The graves are there (unlike some historical feature), easily visible, > fairly stable. I do not see any reason why they should not be mapped > in OSM database. > They are not likely going to be rendered by any big renderer, but that > does not really matter if someone wants to map them... > Lukas (LM_1) > > 2012/1/19 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>: > > 2012/1/19 Nick Hocking <nick.hock...@gmail.com>: > >> mick Wrote > >> > >> "I was pointed here by someone on the Devon list at the rootsweb > genealogy " > >> > >> > >> Hi mick > >> > >> When I map a country town I am always on the lookout for any cemetery. > >> I find some very obscure ones and always put them on the map. > >> > >> 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. > > > > > > There is some similar data of this kind already in OSM: > > > > - in 2008 some mappers in Berlin started mapping the graves of famous > > people: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Berlin/OSM_meets_Six_Feet_Under > > (in German) > > - there are some tags (e.g. tomb=war_grave) to map specific types of > graves > > > > but as far as I know there is not yet anybody mapping "ordinary" > > graves (i.e. of people that are neither famous nor did they die in an > > extraordinary way). One problem I'd see around here is that this kind > > of data is not very stable (usually the dead remain only for 20 years > > in their graves, not for eternity, but this depends on the religion > > and local culture). > > > > Keeping this data in a separate layer is suboptimal: e.g. you will > > have tombs in OSM and the graves in them in another layer, now if > > someone moves the tombs (to improve the position) they would move the > > dead out of their tombs. Very bad for your karma... > > > > cheers, > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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