[Data-modeling] Place of burial

[Tom Morris]

I was just looking at types related to cemeteries the other day and
was surprised to find that they appear to be entirely absent from
Freebase.  Both GNIS and Geonames include a feature class called
cemetery.  Since Location has properties for both GNIS id and GeoNet
id, I kind of assumed that it contained all the locations that they
contain.  Were only certain feature classes imported?  Can the others
be added?

Tom

p.s. Faye's year old request and my followup of a few days ago can be
found here http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/location#/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004f27f6d

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Kirrily Robert <kirrily at metaweb.com> wrote:
> In a sort of offshoot of the "place of worship" discussion, I'd like
> to propose a "place of burial" type.
>
> Currently the deceased person type has "place of burial" expecting a
> simple location.  I would like to change this expected type to "burial
> place", which would include "location".
>
> That way when you looked at eg. Westminster Abbey, you could see
> "People buried here".
>
> I'm not sure what we'd do with "place of cremation".  Do people
> actually care about the place of cremation, or is the place where the
> ashes are interred that people care about?  It seems like an odd
> property to me.
>
> K.
>
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> Kirrily Robert
> Freebase Community Director
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