WASHINGTON — The faded headstones bear the family names of early town settlers: Barnum, Chapel, French and Pease. In the heart of October Mountain State Forest lies the West Branch Road Cemetery, ...

Students from Miami University's Geospatial Analysis Center used phones and drones to count and collect data on headstones at a city's cemetery.

FAIRBURY, Ill. (AP) - A 21st century GPS device resting atop a tombstone from the 19th century connects with a satellite orbiting more than 12,000 miles above the Earth so high school students can map ...

When Bowling Green’s first municipal cemetery, Repose Park – now known as Pioneer Cemetery – began filling up in the mid-19th century, the city established the massive Fairview Cemetery in 1865 a ...

If you told me a decade ago that I’d become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would’ve laughed and been very confused about the dramatic turn my professional life must’ve taken at some point. I’m an ...

He got the idea for the cemetery mapping project after Roger McDowell of the Fairbury Veterans of Foreign Wars approached him about finding veterans' gravestones that were in need of repair. Quain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miami University students in the author's advanced GIS course collect headstone data. Robbyn Abbitt, CC BY-SA If you told me a ...

Robbyn Abbitt receives funding from local entities that manage the cemeteries that have been mapped. She works for Miami University. If you told me a decade ago that I’d become an expert in mapping ...