My question then is how do I go from a cemetery in your database to a pin on the map?

Question

In the 2022 May 22 Wiki Genealogy Feed, New G2G Activity email, I was intrigued by Steven Harris's Global Cemetery Maps app.Here, then here. To my surprise, my hometown cemetery did not show up  with a 'pin' although there were a few neighbouring places with pins.

I thought I would become a cemeterist to add missing cemeteries. In getting started, I discovered that my missing cemetery, Boissevain-Morton Cemetery is in your database already. See here here.

My question then is how do I go from a cemetery in your database to a pin on the map?

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Answer 1

Hi Jim,

I am excited you are willing to help out and add data for the map!

In this case, Boissevain-Morton, Manitoba, Cemeteries is a grouping of cemeteries in Boissevain-Morton, Manitoba, not an actual cemetery.

Once there is an individual cemetery created (i.e., Boissevain and Morton Cemetery) and the coordinates are provided, we can then show it on the map.

As an example, see the edit page for Sterling-White Cemetery, Highlands, Texas. The CategoryInfoBox Cemetery template is being used to document the needed data, such as Name, Parent, Location, Coordinates, FindAGrave link, etc.

Answer 2

The Category Info Box on that cemetery is missing the GPS coordinates. It needs 

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added with the decimal GPS coordinates. Then the map will find it. See the Help at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:CategoryInfoBox_Cemetery

for what the parameters are.

Comments

This is actually a cemetery group, not an individual cemetery. I was thinking the same thing when I first saw it!

But unfortunately I not mapping cemetery groups.

Answer 3

Thanks, Doug McCallum and Steven Harris for your explanations; I now have a pin for the Boissevain and Morton Cemetery.

There is a huge issue outstanding: Categorization is becoming muddled because of the 2015 amalgamations of municipal entities in Manitoba. Do we use the erstwhile  names of rural municipalites and towns or the new name?

The problem being that some users do it one way and some the other way such that if we look for burials in Boissevain we may miss those who we buried there but lived in the rural municipality

I would appreciate some dicussion about how we can deal with this.