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From the air

aerial view of Ballantyne's fire memorial and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Ballantyne's fire memorial

A memorial on the city’s public ground: standing in Bromley.

On the map as
memorial
The suburb
Bromley

Where it stands

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position, the strong outline is the suburb the map puts it in, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

165 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Rubbish & dumping, 125 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Poles and Signage - General Canterbury · 16 September 2026
Litter Canterbury · 15 September 2026
Water General 14 Kawau Cres · 17 August 2026
Facility - General Request Canterbury · 10 June 2026
Street Cleaning 4 Takapu Pl · 27 May 2026
Trees - General Raymond Road, Bromley · 13 May 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Ballantyne's fire memorial?

A memorial in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Bromley.

Where does Ballantyne's fire memorial stand?

In Bromley, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps no listed place within 300m of it.

Is the pin on the map exact?

It’s OpenStreetMap’s position, a surveyed-looking point, but a volunteer map’s one. Nearby ground and register places are neighbours, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the tags are OpenStreetMap’s, a named node or way tagged memorial or artwork inside the city boundary (ODbL). The maker, material and date fields are the mapper’s own, kept verbatim; a listing is a lead, not a catalogue record.

This page as markdown: /memorial/ballantynes-fire-memorial.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.