chch.live a monument

From the air

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

Spitfire

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

On the map as
war memorial
The suburb
Christchurch Airport

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

47 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 31 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Spitfire?

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

Where does Spitfire stand?

In Christchurch Airport, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps no listed 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/spitfire.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.