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.<\/p>\n
‘These valuable assets, in particular memorials and gravestones, must be maintained, records kept of where they are, what they look like.<\/p>\n
‘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.<\/p>\n
‘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.<\/p>\n
‘Integrating the map with images of the memorials and the historic records will protect the records but also make them accessible online.<\/p>\n
‘We are in discussion with potential partners to source investment to facilitate a rapid deployment across the country.<\/p>\n
‘This is certainly an exciting and challenging project\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> #RealisticVirtualEarth<\/a> #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology<\/a> #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics<\/a> ~<\/p>\n \u2014 WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) March 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n