From the air
Medway Footbridge Earthquake Memorial
A memorial on the city’s public ground: standing in Avonside.
This stone is to the 2010–11 Canterbury earthquake sequence, the story in plain language: the earthquakes explainer · every shake, counted: /sequence.
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
134 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 114 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge
Graffiti on a playground or in a park
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Pavement - Damaged
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structureQuestions, answered briefly
A memorial in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Avonside.
In Avonside, the pin is the map’s own position, inside the outline drawn around it. The register keeps no listed place 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, way or relation 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/medway-footbridge-earthquake-memorial.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.