From the air
Free Flight
A sculpture on the city’s public ground: standing in Christchurch Central.
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.
On the register nearby
Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the monument, not the monument itself unless the register says so.
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
3,299 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 2,651 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Pavement - Damaged
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Hazard, vehicle
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A sculpture in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Christchurch Central. The map credits Paul Dibble.
In Christchurch Central, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps 8 places within 300m of it.
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/free-flight.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.