On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 20:36, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
"C of E laser scanning project and free website to make ‘huge
difference’ to family history researchers"
"Funding for the programme has come from Historic England, the
National Lottery Heritage Fund and Caring for God’s Acre, a charity
which helps care for burial grounds, and genealogy research websites."
It is to be hoped that NLHF's new requirement, that the results of
what they fund be released under open licence, will apply, and that no
exemption to that has been granted.
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Usefulness will heavily depend on resolution. There are various listed
monuments in churchyards but STL files require a decent resolution to
be useful (Mad Jack Fuller pyramid is perhaps an exception).
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geni