Hello everyone,
I'm following up on Pyb's message about the Super Lachaise mobile app :I'm happy to announce the release of Super Lachaise on the App Store. It's a free mobile app that help you during the visit of the Père Lachaise cemetery. This is probably one of the firsts mobile apps to use Wikidata ;)
http://www.superlachaise.fr/
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/super-lachaise/id918263934
Pyb
I'm the developer of the app. It's a small project I've been doing in my spare time.
Not available in the Dutch iTunes Store...
Sorry about that. The app is currently only available in french language and in the french app store, i expect to release an international/english version before the end of the year.
That's a great idea!
Just curious, for such a specific use case, why did you go for an App instead of a Website?
Thanks a lot ! There are a lot of tourists coming to the Père Lachaise cemetery. The app is designed to be a companion, helping people finding specific tombs with geolocation and photos, discovering what's around them or accessing wikipedia/wikimedia commons data for the famous people buried there.
How do you get the geocoordinates for the individual graves? Looing at
http://www.superlachaise.fr/ I see Guillaume Apollinaire. His Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133855 has no geodata. The cemetery link and Findagrave seem neither to have geodata.
I will contribute the geodata to Wikidata. Thanks for pointing that.
Maxime