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From the air

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

University Map

A relief on the city’s public ground: standing in Ilam.

On the map as
relief
The suburb
Ilam
Register places near it
1

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

71 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 60 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

General Request 55 Creyke Rd · 2 June 2026
General Request Canterbury · 27 May 2026
General Request Canterbury · 14 May 2026
Pavement - Damaged University Dr · 30 April 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Canterbury · 23 February 2026
Pothole University Dr · 20 February 2026
Pothole Erskine Building Corner Science and Engineering Roads University of Canterbury, Ilam · 19 November 2025
Pavement - Damaged University of Canterbury, Canterbury Region 8041 · 29 October 2025
Sign Poles 90 Ilam Road, Ilam · 7 May 2025
Damaged Street Sign University of Canterbury · 30 March 2025
Bus Shelter Issue University of Canterbury · 24 March 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is University Map?

A relief in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Ilam.

Where does University Map stand?

In Ilam, 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/university-map.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.