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From the air

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

Lest We Forget

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

On the map as
memorial
The suburb
Sumner
Register places near it
3

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

922 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Graffiti & vandalism, 703 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Hazard, vehicle 16 Esplanade, Sumner · 13 October 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 25 Esplanade · 13 October 2026
General Request 27 Esplanade · 10 October 2026
Pavement - Damaged Marriner St near Main Rd, Sumner · 26 September 2026
Public Toilet 25–27 Esplanade · 22 September 2026
Trees - General 23 Nayland Street, Sumner · 22 September 2026
Damaged Street Sign Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, Sumner · 3 September 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Lest We Forget?

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

Where does Lest We Forget stand?

In Sumner, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps 3 places 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/lest-we-forget.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.