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Mayor Van Johnson called the site “sacred ground.” ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robbyn Abbitt, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) If you told me a decade ago that ...