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Hi everyone
I'm a member of a local historical society and our project for the coming year is to map out our local cemetery. Roughly 52 acres and several thousand graves. Over the past hundred years there have been several people who have managed it and so everything is a mess.
We see many genealogist who come looking for relatives and they place a gps device on the grave for about 10 minutes and then mark down the results. We'd like to use this technology but don't know where to start. About 40% of the plots have well defined borders, so we assume we will identify each plot by the corners we are certain of and then extrapolate the rest by eye. Several of us have auto based navigation systems (I have a TomTom) but we would guess it would not have the precision we would need.
Can anyone help us with information to get started?
Thanks
SlumberKinge
I'm a member of a local historical society and our project for the coming year is to map out our local cemetery. Roughly 52 acres and several thousand graves. Over the past hundred years there have been several people who have managed it and so everything is a mess.
We see many genealogist who come looking for relatives and they place a gps device on the grave for about 10 minutes and then mark down the results. We'd like to use this technology but don't know where to start. About 40% of the plots have well defined borders, so we assume we will identify each plot by the corners we are certain of and then extrapolate the rest by eye. Several of us have auto based navigation systems (I have a TomTom) but we would guess it would not have the precision we would need.
Can anyone help us with information to get started?
Thanks
SlumberKinge