Oak Knoll Cemetery, which is owned and operated by the City of Princeton, was experiencing a common problem faced by most municipal owned cemeteries; the record keeping was outdated, inefficient and inaccurate. The city was keeping data in several places, including paper binders, spreadsheets and paper maps, and struggling to keep those records current. As they were responsible for tracking plot ownership, availability and owner details, they needed to develop a more accurate and efficient system for data management that worked for the both the city and the public.
The City of Princeton hired WSB’s GIS team to evaluate their current situation, recommend and implement a solution. By leveraging our GIS expertise and our propriety software solution, we were able to provide a highly accurate and digital solution.
As a bonus, there is also a public facing interface of Virtuery. The general pubic is able to visit a secured version of the cemetery website using a tablet or phone to search the database using name or plot ID in order to locate a specific plot. It is an easy and intuitive interface that limits the public’s experience to basic map and search functions.