{"id":3904,"date":"2012-07-20T20:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2012-07-20T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:10:12","slug":"474-touchscreen-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3904","title":{"rendered":"474. touchscreen map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201207B48.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recoleta Cemetery can now boast some of the latest technology: a <strong>touchscreen monitor<\/strong> with an electronic map &amp; information about <strong>more than 200<\/strong> of its most important residents. Listings are categorized mainly by occupation: President, lawyer, engineer\/architect, politician, military, etc. A search function also allows users to find tombs by typing a family name. Once an entry is selected, a photo gallery &amp; biography are displayed. Cool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201207B44.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tapping the button <em>\u00bfC\u00f3mo llegar?<\/em> displays a pop-up window containing a complete map of the cemetery. As if that wasn&#8217;t snazzy enough, a green arrow flashes to show the tomb location. Colored sections on the map correspond to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=143\">official divisions<\/a>, &amp; all red numbers have information available&#8230; no wonder this took a year to put together!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201207B45.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A general information section has details about guided visits plus other services, a historic background &amp; even a bibliography. All text is available in both English &amp; Spanish&#8230; definitely a plus for visitors. Translations could be better but all things considered, this is a great improvement over the previous lack of information in English. As an example, take a moment to read the text for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3195\">Herlitzka family vault<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201207B46.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Recoleta Cemetery, touch screen\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unless already familiar with the cemetery&#8212;very unlikely for the majority of people who visit&#8212;the touchscreen is <strong>more useful on the way out<\/strong> rather than when first entering. No print copy is provided from the search, so first-time visitors would have trouble remembering the location of any tomb not on a main walkway. Of course, they could purchase a map then spend some time marking tombs of interest. But a better way to take advantage of this resource would be to search for tombs you&#8217;ve already seen. Scroll through your digital photos, then search for info.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=511\">from experience<\/a> how difficult it is to put together a useful guide to Recoleta Cemetery. It&#8217;s so dense with tons of history &amp; art packed inside&#8230; any attempt at organization is overwhelming. But this is a good complement to the most visited attraction in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recoleta Cemetery can now boast some of the latest technology: a touchscreen monitor with an electronic map &amp; information about more than 200 of its&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3904\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">474. touchscreen map<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}