Now Jon,
I completely understand your concerns but after working in government a few years, I
totally understand the hang up of just getting the job done. I would think Jeannie
Regan-Dinius from the previous communication with the DNR would be able to answer these
questions or direct us to someone who can. Input and work like this is sometimes
delegated to summer college interns. And it might be really important to us, but
isn't a burning issue at that level of government. And over those same six years you
mentioned, technology, workforce and leadership has changed adding to the mix!
Maybe we could provide assistance with the input but as Jeannie indicated, the online
database is still in development. And they are not using our grade of GPS equipment I
would bet so that takes a bit more expertise and data collection. These cemeteries would
probably be plotted, through GPS, to county/state digital map files and may have as little
as 6" variance in location with the rest of locations in Indiana and the world.
I am sorry that Jeannie seemed one of the bad guys last week as that was not my intention
at all when I forwarded her response. If you think you are frustrated with these issues,
think about all the Jeannie's trying to do a good job - and all the brick walls they
live with every day. If it was as easy as just do it, stuff would be done but it
doesn't work that way in government.
So, Jeannie if you are reading this, my hat is off to you for all that you do and I am
sorry if things seemed personal last week. Can you help with Jon's questions?
Now, how can we help you?
Thanks, K
----- Original Message -----
From: jon andrews<mailto:sianoil@hotmail.com>
To: inpcrp@rootsweb.com<mailto:inpcrp@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Pioneer Cemeteries
Back on an old subject, but can anybody tell me what it costs to visit DHPA
in Indy and view this information and is the online database when it is up
and running going to free to the public or will it be by subscription only?
It seems ridiculous to do the dirty work and send them free information,
when they are going to charge us to view it on their database. In fact, I'd
like to know how much we as taxpayers are paying to have this information
inputted and why it takes almost 6 years to only input 3000 sites? What are
they doing up there?
Jon Andrews
From: "Regan-Dinius, Jeannie"
<JRDinius@dnr.IN.gov<mailto:JRDinius@dnr.IN.gov>>
Reply-To: inpcrp@rootsweb.com<mailto:inpcrp@rootsweb.com>
To: <inpcrp@rootsweb.com<mailto:inpcrp@rootsweb.com>>
Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Pioneer Cemeteries
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:54:34 -0400
The Cemetery and Burial Ground is moving along. We have over 3000
sites
in our database, with more being inputted everyday. That does not
include the over 20,000 files we have on cemeteries in every county.
Currently, our office is creating an online database, that is expected
to be available next year. It will not have every cemetery in it
immediately. The slow part of the job is that we have to visit sites to
get accurate GPS readings, confirm unknown locations to the best of our
abilities, and input that data.
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