Cemetery GPR Scanning

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Cemetery GPR Scanning? A Brief Guide! Cemetery GPR Scanning – what is it? GPR stands for Ground Penetrating Radar. This technology allows us to scan the ground to see what is hidden beneath the surface. It’s a non-invasive method of detecting objects buried deep in soil, sand, or gravel. Archaeologists and other scientists use cemetery […]

Finding Unmarked Graves at Cemetery

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Finding unmarked graves in the news as reported by The McDonald County Press. Joyce Haynes of the Shelt Noel Cemetery Board said 46 unmarked graves were recently discovered at the cemetery. The board hired Scott Field of Via Vista Mapping, a GIS web map specialist, to bring ground-penetrating radar to search for unmarked graves. Haynes […]

Christmas Flourishes in Cemeteries

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Cemetery: From the The Gainesville Sun Around the country, this is the season when cemeteries become homes for many families’ second Christmas tree, where devotion meets tinsel, “Let It Snow” garden ornaments and the occasional Santa swizzle stick. A kind of populist yuletide ritual is flourishing far from front yards, transforming the graves of loved […]

Cemetery Mapping Services: Let’s get digital

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Cemetery mapping services are transitioning to digital platforms. We are living in age of digitalization, and things around us are increasingly dominated by technology. The world has changed. We work from home, attend school from home, shop from home, and stream movies at home.  Online activities have increased in quantity and popularity.  People are becoming […]

Burial Plot Map Essentials

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Burial Plot maps are an essential tool for managing a cemetery. Cemetery operators that provide burial plot maps ensure their patrons have quick and easy access to gravesite locations.  Additionally, an accurate burial plot map allows cemetery management to have an exact understanding of how much space is available for future development. Particular care should […]

CEMETERY MAPPING TO PRESERVE YOUR CEMETERY

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There are many challenges that come with effectively operating a cemetery due to a lack of cemetery mapping: INCOMPLETE, INACCURATE, AND CONFUSING DOCUMENTATION  In many communities, cemetery data is documented in spreadsheets, handwritten and typed books, coffee-stained maps, and even only known by one individual. Managing a cemetery with this kind of disjointed data can […]

Cemetery Mapping News – Brandon South Dakota

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Cemetery mapping news: If you’re driving past the Brandon Lutheran Cemetery this week, you might see a strange man with strange equipment walking the grounds in the blazing heat.  This man is Scott Field, owner of ViaVista Mapping, who is digitally mapping all of the marked and unmarked graves at the Brandon cemetery located along […]

BURIAL PLOT MAP FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN CEMETERY

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In January 2022, we completed a digital burial plot map at the Glencoe-Geiger Cemetery, which is located on Sugar Mill Dr. between S.R. 44 and Pioneer Trail west of New Smyrna Beach. The land was donated to the Geiger family for a cemetery by the Smith family that is buried there. The cemetery is primarily […]

CEMETERY MAPPING – UNDERSTANDING PRICING

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Are you in charge of a private or public cemetery?  Do you have missing or incorrect records that are causing major issues? ViaVista Mapping has the cemetery management solution for you!  We offer affordable options for creating maps of your cemetery, using state-of-the art equipment and software, that will help manage and develop your memorial […]

HISTORIC CEMETERY IN NEW YORK

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This historic cemetery is located in New York, just north of New York City. The parish of St. Stephens Episcopal Church has been serving the Armonk, New York, community for more than 175 years, and the church’s cemetery is a treasured part of the community’s history.  Over the years and through many changes in parish […]