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From the air

aerial view of Redwood Dancing Springs and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Redwood Dancing Springs

A named spring in Christchurch, at Redwood.

On the map as
spring
The suburb
Redwood

Where it sits

The pin sits near the water’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around 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

117 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 93 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Street Gutters / Storm Water 34–38 Willowview Dr · 6 October 2026
Playground Equipment Redwood Springs Park Willowview Drive, Redwood · 19 November 2025
Street Gutters / Storm Water 34–38 Willowview Dr · 6 October 2025
Park - General Request Redwood Springs Park Willowview Drive, Redwood · 3 October 2025
Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 26 September 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is Redwood Dancing Springs?

A named spring in Christchurch, at Redwood, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Redwood Dancing Springs?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the spring, roughly the water’s middle. 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 lake, lagoon, wetland or spring 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: /lake/redwood-dancing-springs.md · the whole roll as data: /lakes.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=lakes · the waterways: /river · the coast: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.