Introduction to Cemetery Management

Cemetery Management can be used to develop an authoritative cemetery and gravesite inventory and share gravesite and burial information with the public.

Cemeteries are valuable historic resources that offer insight into a community's unique population. They also serve as memorials that comfort people as they process the loss of loved ones. Unfortunately, cemeteries are threatened by encroaching development, the effects of extreme weather, and even a lack of usable space, and when they fall into disuse or are neglected, they can be problematic for their communities.​ Improving cemetery management is key to addressing these issues, but a local government cannot effectively manage these community assets unless it knows how many gravesites each cemetery has, who owns each gravesite, and who, if anyone, is buried there. Therefore, the first step a local government must take to manage one or more cemeteries is to create a gravesite inventory.

The Cemetery Management solution delivers a set of capabilities that help local governments inventory publicly owned cemeteries and gravesites, monitor cemetery operations, and share gravesite and burial information with the public.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Cemetery Management requires the following:

  • ArcGIS Online
  • ArcGIS Pro 3.1 or later
  • ArcGIS Field Maps

Information products

Cemetery Management includes the following:

ItemDescriptionMinimum user type

Cemetery Data Management

An ArcGIS Pro project used by GIS analysts to develop a cemetery and gravesite inventory from record information

Creator

Cemetery Field Map

An ArcGIS Field Maps map used by cemetery administrators to enhance gravesite and burial information

Mobile Worker

Cemetery Manager

An ArcGIS Instant Apps Manager app used by cemetery administrators to manage cemetery information and review memorials submitted by the public

Contributor

Cemetery Dashboard

An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by cemetery administrators to understand the status of gravesites and burials in their cemeteries

Viewer

Cemetery Viewer

An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by the public to explore cemeteries and locate burials or gravesites in each cemetery

Not required

Loving Memorial

An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by the public to submit memorials that honor loved ones

Not required

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

VersionDescription
1.1 (Nov 2024)
  • The Cemetery Manager app has been updated to use ArcGIS Instant Apps.
1.0 (Mar 2023)
  • First release of Cemetery Management