From the air
Penguins
A statue on the city’s public ground: standing in Akaroa.
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
21 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 14 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Pavement - General
Road Signage
Overgrown Vegetation
Damaged Road
Damaged Road
Water Pollution - Sediment
Water Pollution - SedimentQuestions, answered briefly
A statue in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Akaroa.
In Akaroa, the pin is the map’s own position. 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 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/penguins.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.