Cemetery Color

[Sal Diccio]

Why are cemeteries shown on the map as gray areas? Should they be green? While they definitely are not parks in the traditional sense, they definitely don't fall under what the gray shade would normally indicate (industrial uses, parking lots, etc...) 

[Andrew Sawyer]

I agree the color is off but they do have a lot of stone. Maybe that is the reason for the color?

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Why are cemeteries shown on the map as gray areas? Should they be green? While they definitely are not parks in the traditional sense, they definitely don't fall under what the gray shade would normally indicate (industrial uses, parking lots, etc...) 

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[Geoffrey Perez]

I wonder if it's really this simple: green is a lively color; gray is a dead color. Consider what's being mapped.

Also, not all cemeteries have grass.

Please tell me I'm wrong and that the Google engineers in charge of colorizing boundaries picked the colors simply on a whim or a different reason, because I would just facepalm right about now...

[Saikrishna Arcot]

That was my reasoning too. A cemetery is usually dark and somber, and gray isn't exactly a "fun" color.

On Friday, July 20, 2012 3:47:29 PM UTC-5, geopgeop wrote:

I wonder if it's really this simple: green is a lively color; gray is a dead color. Consider what's being mapped.

Also, not all cemeteries have grass.

Please tell me I'm wrong and that the Google engineers in charge of colorizing boundaries picked the colors simply on a whim or a different reason, because I would just facepalm right about now...

On Jul 20, 2012 8:31 AM, "General Map Maker on behalf of Andrew Sawyer" <google-mapmaker@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I agree the color is off but they do have a lot of stone. Maybe that is the reason for the color?

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Why are cemeteries shown on the map as gray areas? Should they be green? While they definitely are not parks in the traditional sense, they definitely don't fall under what the gray shade would normally indicate (industrial uses, parking lots, etc...) 

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[Michael Delving]

Traditionally, at least in the US, road atlases depicted cemeteries in gray. My AAA road atlas shows them in gray; so does my Rand McNally. Green usually indicates recreation and trees... not quite the "feel" of a cemetery.

[Andrew Sawyer]

Which is likely why a memorial park is grey but has a tree + monument icon.

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Traditionally, at least in the US, road atlases depicted cemeteries in gray. My AAA road atlas shows them in gray; so does my Rand McNally. Green usually indicates recreation and trees... not quite the "feel" of a cemetery.



On Friday, July 20, 2012 8:26:44 AM UTC-7, Sal Diccio wrote:

Why are cemeteries shown on the map as gray areas? Should they be green? While they definitely are not parks in the traditional sense, they definitely don't fall under what the gray shade would normally indicate (industrial uses, parking lots, etc...) 

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[Sal Diccio]

Yeah, I guess if that's how atlases shaded them it makes more sense. I'm just getting hung up on the perceived land use that the color indicates, since it's lumped in with other largely impenetrable surfaces, like airports, parking lots, shopping centers

On Friday, July 20, 2012 6:18:48 PM UTC-4, Andrew Sawyer wrote:

Which is likely why a memorial park is grey but has a tree + monument icon.

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