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From the air

aerial view of Skippy The Dog and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Skippy The Dog

A plaque on the city’s public ground: standing in Lyttelton.

On the map as
plaque
The suburb
Lyttelton
Register places near it
4

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

167 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Water & drains, 141 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Litter 1–9 Reserve Tce, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082 · 28 September 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 47–61 Sumner Rd, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082 · 19 April 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 69–75 Sumner Rd, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082 · 9 March 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Skippy The Dog?

A plaque in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Lyttelton.

Where does Skippy The Dog stand?

In Lyttelton, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps 4 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/skippy-the-dog.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.