Library uses GPS to help locate cemeteries

Link to February 15 Wisconsin Rapids Tribune article.

Excerpt:
McMillan Memorial Library in Wisconsin Rapids has created an online guide to Wood County cemeteries using a Google Maps feature to make it easier for researchers to locate the county's more than 60 cemeteries.

"We get a lot of requests for cemetery lookups, and when we tell people that a burial is in a certain cemetery, we didn't have a way of telling them where it was," said Andy Barnett, the library's assistant director.

The guide includes a listing of each cemetery, a brief description of its location and the GPS coordinates, which can be used in conjunction with car navigation systems to obtain turn-by-turn directions.