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From the air

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

Jack Hinton VC

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

On the map as
memorial
The suburb
Bexley
Made of
stone
The inscription
John (Jack) Daniel Hinton V.C. This reserve is dedicated to the memory of Jack Hinton V.V. of the 20th New Zealand Battalion. Jack Hinton was awarded the Victoria Cross for his fearless actions in Kalamata, Greece, 28-29 April 1941, ...

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

73 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 58 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Jack Hinton VC?

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

Where does Jack Hinton VC stand?

In Bexley, 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/jack-hinton-vc.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.