Nowadays, technology is so advanced that this can be done Anything is just a few clicks away, whether it’s ordering a taxi, booking a hotel, or searching for a place in a city you’ve never been to. By itself, with “Google Maps”, one of the featured applications, you can track more things about each place, be it information, location and even suggestions from other users. But one of the latest creations based on this map application is “grave finder”, focuses on graves and tombstones and is such that you can “find the dead more easily”.

This happened in England, an idea from the company Atlantic Geomatics. The company’s Viney team aims to create a resource that allows graves to be identified and found quickly. A task that is not very simple, because although the approach is simple, its implementation is undoubtedly laborious.

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The purpose of “Street View of the Cemetery”as is known, is to abandon outdated concepts, making it easier to find family members, friends or relatives who want to make a pilgrimage to the graves of their ancestors. “Everything related to preserving archives is very important because I have come across many horror stories where everything was lost due to fire, theft or even flood.”Viney explained to Wired.

The company wants to map and photograph millions of graves from various cemeteries over the next seven years, and intends to offer an online reference with interactive plans, notes and images of headstones and monuments, easy to manage and which parishes can add other records to. . Today, They have created a map from more than 300 comments. One of the spaces that has joined in is St Michael’s in Barton, a spectacular 13th century Norman church.

Plus, you can too search for names and dates or download documentation, but anyone wishing to do so must pay a fee. The data collected will also be used for conservation activities and nature studies, as well as documenting the biodiversity found in the cemetery.