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From the air

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

Hinewai Falls

A named waterfall in Christchurch, at Akaroa.

On the map as
waterfall
The suburb
Akaroa

Where it sits

The pin sits at the fall’s top or plunge line; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay Inside a kept landscape, ONL16.2 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Open Space Natural ON The nearest recorded shake: M3.5 1 October 2010 · 6.5 km from the pin

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

Around it

Boundary Falls waterfall · ~200 m Ghost Falls waterfall · ~350 m Fushia Falls waterfall · ~550 m Wairuru Falls waterfall · 1.1 km

Questions, answered briefly

What is Hinewai Falls?

A named waterfall in Christchurch, at Akaroa, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Hinewai Falls?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the fall, usually the top or the plunge line rather than the pool below. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the name are OpenStreetMap’s, a named waterfall inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position, usually the top or the plunge line, not a surveyed mark.

This page as markdown: /fall/hinewai-falls.md · the whole roll as data: /falls.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=falls · the tracks: /track · the summits: /summit · every roll, counted: /geography.