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.
The geocoordinates come from OpenStreetMap. I've built an aggregate
database which links data from Wikidata and OSM :
https://github.com/MaximeLM/SuperLachaise/tree/master/PereLachaise/Resource…
I will contribute the geodata to Wikidata. Thanks for pointing that.
Maxime