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Olathe City Cemetery GIS Update: Enhancing Online Capabilities

Explore the story of how Amanda Bakley and Collin Baffa, high school and college interns (2006-09), revamped the Olathe Memorial Cemetery with online mapping technologies. This project involved the creation of a searchable geodatabase with over 7,700 points and 24,000 pictures, enabling quick location of burials and site management. Methods included GPS mapping with Trimble GeoXT, photo linking software, and database migration. Website integration and consultation for web viewing were key milestones in this initiative.

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Olathe City Cemetery GIS Update: Enhancing Online Capabilities

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  1. Scott Rice GIS DBA Olathe City Cemetery: an Updateof Online Capabilities

  2. Amanda Bakley Collin Baffa High School / College Interns (2006-09)

  3. Olathe Memorial Cemetery ~8,000 member exclusive club Each member has a name, dates, and other associated information Intern’s Task (2006-09) Match that information with a physical location and a photo reference (i.e. a picture and location for each headstone) Mission

  4. Maps- digital, and the old fashioned kind Professional Survey Trimble Geo XT and external antenna Arcpad and Arcpad Application Builder ArcGIS AutoCad- Map3D GPS-Photo Link Intern’s Tools

  5. Interns collected points in Arcpad using a Trimble GeoXT GPS device At each point (headstone) they took a picture and recorded the name, date, and time in a custom shapefile Methods

  6. Take a GPS point at every headstone The name is added into the form created for the cemetery project Once the point has been entered a picture is taken of the headstone Repeat Collecting Data

  7. GPS-Photo Link is software that combines pictures and coordinate data into a single shapefile It also creates thumbnails and custom watermarked photos that are linked to the shapefile It does this by matching the time a GPS point was taken with the timestamp embedded in digital photos GPS-Photo Link

  8. To create a searchable geodatabase that will allow Quick location of people buried within the cemetery Allow the caretaker to determine who is buried in a particular location Allow the caretaker to determine quickly which plots are open for future customers Create an internet version that will allow searches by resident name, dates, or owner name Why?

  9. Have 7,742 points in different feature classes Approximately 24,000 pictures (original, tagged, thumbnail plus some extras) Tagged images have the x,y and date imprinted on photo after processing by GPS Photo Link Merged all points into 1 feature class in test SDE database 9 points missing images After the Interns

  10. 6 in center, 1 N end, 2 S end Took own pictures Merged with rest Verified all 24,000 photos were oriented correctly, some were not After the Interns

  11. Images moved to web server Table exported from SQL Server to MySQL (web server) Next step: Process to move images from Firebird database (PONTEM) to MySQL After the Interns

  12. Website Parks & Rec hired a consultant to build web site for viewing cemetery records Told us it would take 6 – 24 months to get the headstone images incorporated We built a work around that went live at the same time as cemetery online database After the Interns

  13. Demo: http://www.olatheks.org/parksrec/cemetery Effie, Daniel & Dean Park Goldie Carver & James McAuley (rotated photos) William Shakespeare Zuel Examples

  14. Questions? srice@olatheks.org

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