I've been working on an ontology for graves and cemetery for use with
linked open data [1]. Would there be any interest in setting up an LOD
gateway for grave data on the OSM?
best,
rhw
[1] http://rdf.muninn-project.org/ontologies/graves.html
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:49:42 +0000
From: John Sturdy <jcg.stu...@gmail.com>
To: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
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).
In ordinary UK churchyards and other cemeteries, the graves remain for
centuries, and there are some gravestones and tombs still in place
from several centuries ago.
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...
I remember, from working on a project to encourage local authorities
to use free / open source software, that there are specialized
software packages for cemetery management. (These were a sticking
point / excuse for inertia in FLOSS adoption, as they ran only on
Windows.) It might be worth looking for existing standards as to what
data is kept. There might also be existing databases that would be
available for import (although I gather some of the OSM community
isn't keen on bulk imports, but these will at least be fairly local).
And perhaps local authorities who are starting to use OSM might be
interested in using it to store their cemetery data.
__John
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