chch.live a monument

From the air

aerial view of Fanfare and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Fanfare

A sculpture on the city’s public ground: standing in Belfast.

On the map as
sculpture
The suburb
Belfast
The maker
Neil Dawson
Made of
metal

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

33 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 27 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa Main North Road, Canterbury Region 8083 · 29 January 2026
Road Blockage State Highway 1 · 9 December 2024
Hazard, vehicle Christchurch Northern Motorway, Belfast · 30 December 2023
Pavement - General HJGX+RM Christchurch · 7 March 2023
Flooding Main North Rd near Link Rd · 1 August 2022
Roads - General HMG2+F2 Christchurch · 25 July 2022

Questions, answered briefly

What is Fanfare?

A sculpture in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Belfast. The map credits Neil Dawson.

Where does Fanfare stand?

In Belfast, 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/fanfare.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.