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Basically my only experience with cartography has been working on a project in Columbus, Georgia mapping out an old African American cemetary (dates began mid-1800's). The project involved the actual mapping of the cemetary and indicating where the various burial plots were (they were not always in neat rows) and then creating a database to indicate who was where. Fortunately, they had record book of who was buried and some statistics. I left the project about half-way through because my internship period was over. It was really interesting and I wish that I had been able to see the whole thing through.
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Re: The bone yard
Wed, January 14, 2004 - 5:47 PMhmmm . . . I am curious . . . did the graveyard have markers? If so, it would be really cool to include "rubbings" of the stones. But they probably were not so ornately marked. -
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Wed, January 14, 2004 - 5:54 PMThe markers (when there were markers) ranged from being a single slab of stone with no markings to quite ornate marble. There were only a couple marble ones and those were of this family that was of a doctor. The newer part of the cemetary was what you would expect with clean cut rows, modern headstones. I was working in the older section where sometimes the only reason you knew it was a plot was that the ground was sunken a bit in a rectangular shape. We mapped these, but obviously there was no way to tell who they were.
I did do a couple rubbings just to help me read the names because that seemed to make the worn ones a bit easier to interpret. -
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Re: The bone yard
Fri, January 16, 2004 - 6:00 AMWhat kind of Work do you do now? Anything that that could use the aid of Cartography? -
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Fri, January 16, 2004 - 6:10 AMWell, I just finished a 3 year term in African Studies. I got an early release to Comparative and International Study. So, other than looking at a map to see where we are sending students or getting in speakers from...no. Well, my kids sometimes have school projects...:P I did use map quest yesterday, but it couldn't give me directions to send my ex- to hell. Damn technology. -
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Wed, January 21, 2004 - 12:31 PMSounds good. Their actually working on a new map to actually send your X to hell. He/she will follow it just like any other map, however instead of ending up in candyland, hell is what they get. Waypoints is working on a 3D version as we speak. -
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Wed, January 21, 2004 - 2:02 PMWooohooo! The sooner the better..well, as long as I still get child support. Daycare is expensive. :P
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Wed, January 21, 2004 - 4:00 PMI was thinking more like a 4D version that smells like burnt hair and where the flames actually burn you!
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Re: The bone yard
Wed, January 21, 2004 - 4:01 PMI was thinking more like a 4D version that smells like burnt hair and where the flames actually burn you!
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