Tim Viney, owner and managing director of Altlantic Geomatics, told MailOnline: ‘Across the country there are thousands of burial grounds, each with important assets, buildings and infrastructure.
‘These valuable assets, in particular memorials and gravestones, must be maintained, records kept of where they are, what they look like.
‘The estimated 35,000,000 burial records relating to the Church of England burial grounds are a huge resource yet they are currently difficult to access.
‘We are delighted to be working with the Church of England with whom we propose a systematic approach across the country to map their churchyards.
‘Integrating the map with images of the memorials and the historic records will protect the records but also make them accessible online.
‘We are in discussion with potential partners to source investment to facilitate a rapid deployment across the country.
‘This is certainly an exciting and challenging project”
Church of England to launch a ‘Google Maps for graves’ w/i five years enabling family historians to search for burial records & locations in an online database –https://t.co/guWCqKDjsV #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ~
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