Sunday, December 11, 2011

Bukit Brown cemetery to get 3-D mapping of graves AsiaOne | Sat, Dec 10, 2011 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) will be collecting the GPS data points of graves at the Bukit Brown cemetery to create 3-D mapping of the place. A new road will be constructed into the cemetery in 2013, and about 5,000 graves will be affected by it, reported The Straits Times. Almost 300 people have signed up to help document the graves, and they have been working together since Dec 1 to clean the tombstones, record its inscriptions, and capture photographs for archiving purposes. A historian, Dr Loh Kah Seng, 39, is part of the team and he is in charge of documenting early life around the Bukit Brown area. URA has also announced a group of representatives that will form the new advisory committee, The Straits Times added. This committee includes representatives from various heritage groups and government agencies, and they will oversee the project.

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