From now on, it will be faster and easier to find the eternal resting place of a deceased relative remotely, and applications and burial permits will be issued electronically: Vilnius Municipality has completed the first stage of digitalization of cemeteries in the capital - the system already shows the data of three city cemeteries from Karveliškii (78 ha), Rokantiškii (40 ha) and Verkių (3,6 ha).
On the interactive map https://zemelapiai.vplanas.lt/kapines/ you can find the graves you are looking for by surnames and names, and detailed orthophoto photos show how to get to those quarters. The system can also view the territory of the cemetery - its boundaries, sectors (quarters), rows, formed graves, and cemetery administrators can see free, occupied and monitor unattended graves, paths, etc. Half (121,6 ha) of all cemeteries in the city of Vilnius have already been digitized.
The municipality of the capital was the first in Lithuania to link all the digitized information of burial logs with grave sites. This linking of information allows cemetery administrators to no longer have to sift through old burial logs to find information about people buried in a cemetery. Thanks to the map, the municipality of the capital will be the first to provide the service of issuing electronic permits.
The idea of inventorying all the cemeteries of the city of Vilnius came from the Department of City Management and Environmental Protection, which was able to optimize the process of requests for burial permits, create a database of cemeteries and the structures in them, and keep their records.
"We are probably the only ones in Lithuania with this level of inventory. The map will be useful not only for employees, but also for residents, who will be able to quickly and simply find the burial places of their relatives. A really great job has been done. To create the map, we used detailed orthophotos, which accurately identified and geographically linked grave sites. In the second phase of digitization, all remaining cemeteries belonging to the city will be digitized during this and next year," said Gintautas Runovičius, head of the Department of City Management and Environmental Protection.
Phase I digitization took about one year. The creation of digitalization, cemetery digital information management and administration system cost 161 thousand. euros.
