The piers and the wharves
Every named pier, wharf and jetty the open map records inside the city, 2 piers, 5 wharves and 5 jetties, New Brighton’s long reach into the Pacific, the harbour’s working wharves, and the jetties up the bays where the dinghies still tie.
What the record says
- The wharves and the jetties tie the roll, 5 each, ahead of 2 piers.
- The roll spans about 38 km of coast in a straight line, Akaroa Town Wharf to New Brighton Pier.
- 7 of the 12 are drawn as outlines, the mapper traced the structure, not just dropped a pin at its middle.
- Only Bowater Jetty carries an access tag: private, the map says.
Where they sit
OpenStreetMap’s own pins, the structure’s middle, not its seaward end. The bays and headlands they reach from keep their own roll at /coast.
The piers
The wharves
The jetties
Questions, answered briefly
2 piers, 5 wharves and 5 jetties on the open map, plus 202 more drawn without a name, New Brighton’s long reach, the harbour’s working wharves, and the jetties up the bays.
On the map the words blur, a pier is usually the pleasure or fishing structure (New Brighton), a wharf the working one (Dalys, the harbour’s freight), a jetty the smaller landing. Each page keeps the map’s own word for it.
Some are, the harbour’s wharves are as old as the settlement, though the map records what stands now, not what stood. The register’s listings for the historic ones live at /history.
OpenStreetMap, every named pier, wharf and jetty inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position, usually the structure’s middle, not a surveyed mark.
The record behind this
Named piers, wharves and jetties on OpenStreetMap, inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position for the structure, usually its middle, not a surveyed mark or a port register entry.
This page as markdown: /pier.md · the whole roll as data: /piers.geojson · /piers.json · every pin on the big map: /map?layer=piers · every roll, counted: /geography.