# The lay of the land: Christchurch geography

What the open map records inside the Christchurch City boundary, 642 named features across 11 rolls. Every record is OpenStreetMap’s (ODbL); a pin is the mapper’s position, not a surveyed mark.

## The rolls

- [The waterways](https://www.chch.live/river), 131 waterways · the Avon, the Heathcote, the Styx and every named stream
- [The still water](https://www.chch.live/lake), 28 lakes, wetlands and springs · Te Waihora, Wairewa, the oxbows and the named springs
- [The coast](https://www.chch.live/coast), 110 bays and headlands · the harbour’s bays and the peninsula’s capes
- [The shore](https://www.chch.live/beach), 21 beaches and islands · the long sands and the harbour’s islands
- [The high places](https://www.chch.live/summit), 90 summits and lookouts · the crater rim’s tops and the named viewpoints
- [The old sites](https://www.chch.live/site), 24 ruins and archaeological sites · what stood on the ground before
- [The stone](https://www.chch.live/rock), 45 rocks, crags and quarries · the volcanic tors and the pits that built the kerbs
- [The waterfront](https://www.chch.live/pier), 12 piers, wharves and jetties · New Brighton’s reach and the harbour’s working piles
- [The falls](https://www.chch.live/fall), 11 waterfalls · Hinewai’s cascades and the Brices
- [The monuments](https://www.chch.live/memorial), 138 memorials and artworks · the marked ground and the remembered names
- [The cemeteries](https://www.chch.live/cemetery), 32 named burial grounds · the quiet ground the open map draws

## Read it another way

- [The suburbs](https://www.chch.live/suburb), each ring lists what the map records inside it
- [The tracks](https://www.chch.live/track): council track records across the city and the hills
- [Heritage walks](https://www.chch.live/walks), 31 drawn itineraries through the old ground
- [The big map](https://www.chch.live/map), every layer, live
- [The record, as files](https://www.chch.live/data), every roll’s geojson and json

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OpenStreetMap data inside the city boundary (ODbL). The counts are read off each family’s own file at build time, they grow as the map grows.