From the air

William David Mason memorial

A yes on the city’s public ground: standing in Hillsborough.

On the map as

yes

The suburb

Hillsborough

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

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay The liquefaction model grades it “Liquefaction Damage is Unlikely” the 2019 screening study Inside a silent-file precinct the plan keeps the specifics quiet Inside a kept landscape, ONL38.2 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Open Space Natural ON The rockfall survey counts 74 boulders within 500 m 20 came down · 9 wobble easy The nearest recorded shake: M3.3 27 December 2011 · ~300 m from the pin · 610 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

Rapaki Track regional park · under 150 m Witch Hill regional park · ~300 m Walk and bike track through Hillsborough track · ~250 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Cashmere track · ~950 m from the pin Archie Lilly memorial monument · ~500 m 19th Inf Battallion monument · 2.5 km Flinders monument · 2.7 km Heathcote War Memorial monument · 3.2 km

The reports nearby

4 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Trees & parks, 4 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak Canterbury · 17 June 2026

Water Leak Summit Road, Canterbury Region 8022 · 17 June 2026

Animal - Deceased Canterbury · 3 December 2025

Parks Rapaki Track, Hillsborough · 5 November 2017

Questions, answered briefly

What is William David Mason memorial?

A yes in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Hillsborough.

Where does William David Mason memorial stand?

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