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From the air

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

War Memorial

A memorial on the city’s public ground: standing in Coutts Island.

On the map as
memorial
The suburb
Coutts Island

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

49 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Trees & parks, 37 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Road Signage Coutts Island War Memorial Reserve 101 Dickeys Road, Coutts Island · 17 September 2026
Traffic Signals Coutts Island War Memorial Reserve 101 Dickeys Road, Coutts Island · 15 September 2026
Traffic Signals Coutts Island War Memorial Reserve 101 Dickeys Road, Coutts Island · 21 July 2026
Trees - General 101 Dickeys Rd · 12 March 2026
Fallen Tree Coutts Island War Memorial Reserve 101 Dickeys Road, Coutts Island · 22 January 2026
Abandoned Vehicle 159 Dickeys Rd · 4 October 2025
Dumped Rubbish 101 Dickeys Rd · 26 August 2025
Dumped Rubbish Coutts Island War Memorial Reserve 101 Dickeys Road, Coutts Island · 25 August 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is War Memorial?

A memorial in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Coutts Island.

Where does War Memorial stand?

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