QR codes have been added to historic sections of Aschersleben cemeteries

QR Codes used on gravestones

The administration of the company has decided to broaden its use of the quick response codes. The Aschersleben cemetery administration has now decided that it will be expanding its listing of QR codes, in a move that is marking graves from World War I, to offer visitors more information. Scanning the quick response codes on the gravestones using a smartphone directs users to a special website. The website makes it possible for visitors to the cemetery to be able to access more than what is carved into the gravestone, with…

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Historic German cemetery adds QR codes to open up the past

QR codes gravestone

Quick response codes have been added to panels near certain gravesites to provide more information than names and dates. The Central Cemetery in Aschersleben, a town in the Saxony-Anhalt district of Salzlandkreis, in Germany, has decided to add QR codes to small signs throughout the historic site in order to give smartphone users the opportunity to learn more about the deceased who are buried there. To start, there will be 21 signs next to grave stones from the 1860s to help people to learn more. Across the cemetery, there are…

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QR codes on gravestones generate controversy in France

QR Codes used on gravestones

An argument has arisen with regards to who can give the nod to quick response codes on grave markers. As the trend of using QR codes on gravestones in order to make it possible to provide visitors to cemeteries with an opportunity to learn more about the people who are buried there, has reached a French community of almost 100,000 people, located near Belgium, called Tourcoing, and this technology has brought a great deal of controversy along with it. At the start of the arguments has been who actually has…

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QR codes are headed to gravestones in Somerset, England town

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Burnham-On-Sea has permitted the use of quick response codes on grave markers in its three cemeteries. Counselors in Burnham-On-Sea recently gathered and gave their approval for the use of QR codes on gravestones in the cemeteries that are located in the town, in order to allow for a more modern experience for memorializing the deceased. These quick response codes will be added to gravestones for the first time at the three Burnham and Highbridge cemeteries. These QR codes will give visitors to the cemeteries the opportunity to be able to…

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QR codes added to Minnesota company’s headstones

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This new high tech cemetery is hoping to create an enhanced way to memorialize those who have passed away. There is a trend that has been starting to grow in cemeteries throughout the world, which has involved the use of QR codes on headstones in order to be able to better memorialize those who have died and who are buried on their grounds. This trend has made its way into Minnesota, where a cemetery is now offering this feature to its customers. The point to adding the QR codes to…

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