chch.live a bay

From the air

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

Officers Point

A named headland on the city’s coast: off Lyttelton.

On the map as
headland
The suburb
Lyttelton

Where it sits

A headland’s pin sits on the point; the strong outline is the suburb behind it, 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

5 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Everything else and Graffiti & vandalism, 2 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Officers Point?

A named headland on Christchurch’s coast, off Lyttelton, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Officers Point?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the headland, a bay’s pin sits on the water it names, a headland’s on the point. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named bay or cape inside the city boundary (ODbL). The dual names are recorded as the map carries them; a pin is the mapper’s position, not a surveyed mark.

This page as markdown: /coast/officers-point.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.