Cemetery

[PatrickLockwitz]

Has anything been developed within the LGIM to account for cemeteries managed by local governments?

[TammyMcDermid]

I would like to see more on this as well. I am currenlty using a map that I manually created plotting each grave space and assigning the attributes through all of our manual records.  After I completed this project I read an article on a large cemetery in Quebec that uses GIS to manage inquiries as well.

[ScottOppmann]

We have not done anything for cemetery management yet.  Please send us you specific ideas (what maps and apps you'd like to see) and we'll give it additional thought.  If you could submit your idea via ideas.arcgis.com, that would be great.  We'd like to see how valuable the community thinks this addition would be.  Thanks

[JoshWhite]

Originally posted by scot6032


We have not done anything for cemetery management yet. Please send us you specific ideas (what maps and apps you'd like to see) and we'll give it additional thought. If you could submit your idea via ideas.arcgis.com, that would be great. We'd like to see how valuable the community thinks this addition would be. Thanks

I'd love to see this as well.  I actually developed my own dataset based on the information I had.  I also used my county's example of a cemetery they did and used some of it.  Luckily, I had the lines already in CAD and I just digitized over them.  It isn't exactly the largest Cemetery in the world but it still took a couple of months to do.  I think I digitized something like 16000 spaces.  I have used such things as the name, DOB, DOD and such using a joined table.  I assigned each Space a SpaceID in this format: Addition.Block.Lot.SpaceNumber (ie: OLD.A.100.1)  I also have a field for those that don't have burials for Deeded, Available for Sale, Not Available (for various reasons) and Unknown (if the records are missing).  The sexton seems to like the end product but wishes for more as far as a webmap.  Right now I use a Flex Viewer.  Creating a web app template may be quite helpful too.

[PatrickLockwitz]

I just submitted this as an Idea on the ArcGIS Ideas page.  It is titled Local Government Informaiton Model (LGIM) - Cemetery feature class.

We have discussed the option of buying software, Pontem, instead of creating this and managing it through the GIS group.

[JoshWhite]

Patrick,
If you want, I'd be happy to send you the schema for my Cemetery dataset.  If you are interested just send me an email jwhite at arkansascityks dot gov

[SuzannePolk]

I am also very interested to have a cemetery feature data set in the LGIM. Currently I have a Polygon shapefile, 2 point files - 1 cemetery and 1 with individual gravesites (the individual gravesite is only for a few of the cemeteries) and 2 excel tables - 1 with cemetery info, one with individual grave info.  I would love to have this somewhere in LGIM.  Any progress on this?  Last post was several months ago.

Suzanne

[PatrickLockwitz]

I just checked the ideas website and there are 3 ideas related to "cemetery" and all have relativly low support, <100 points.  ESRI may not do much if there is not a large amount of user support for it.  I'm told that we are going to move forward with this, probably in a month or two.  I'll probably reach out to ksjosh82 to get this schema and work off of what others have already done and are using.  I don't have time to reinvent the wheel.  We are also looking at software from a company called Legacy Mark, but they do all their mapping in MapInfo.

[JoshWhite]

I attached the schema that I use.  It's not terribly sophisticated but it could get you started.  It was created using Xray.

[JoshWhite]

That's not bad.  Might want to reconsider the basemap though, when you zoom in it is too pixelated.  For mine I used the imagery when zoomed out but changed to a streetmap style as it was zoomed in.