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From the air

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

Memorial Gate

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

On the map as
war memorial
The suburb
Waltham
Register places near it
1
Made of
concrete
The inscription
TO COMMEMORATE THE GLORIOUS DEEDS OF THE ATHLETES OF THIS PROVINCE IN THE GREAT WAR AUG. 1914-NOV. 1918.

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

975 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 839 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Memorial Gate?

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

Where does Memorial Gate stand?

In Waltham, the pin is the map’s own position, inside the outline drawn around it. The register keeps 1 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/memorial-gate.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.