From the air

Rapaki Wharf

A named wharf in Christchurch.

On the map as

wharf

Where it sits

The pin sits near the structure’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground Te Tai o Mahaanui (Christchurch, Banks Peninsula and Selwyn Coastal Marine Area) The rockfall survey counts 9 boulders within 500 m 6 came down The nearest recorded shake: M3.4 22 February 2011 · ~750 m from the pin · 435 logged within 5 km

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

Around it

Rapaki Wharf community park · under 150 m Pony Point regional park · ~500 m Bowater Jetty pier · 1.9 km Psyche Jetty pier · 1.9 km Govenor's Bay Jetty pier · 2.8 km Cruise Ship Berth pier · 3.1 km

Questions, answered briefly

What is Rapaki Wharf?

A named wharf in Christchurch, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Rapaki Wharf?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the wharf, usually the middle of the structure, not its seaward end. 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 pier, wharf or jetty inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position, usually the middle of the structure, not a surveyed mark or a port register entry.

This page as markdown: /pier/rapaki-wharf.md · the whole roll as data: /piers.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=piers · the coast: /coast · the beaches: /beach · every roll, counted: /geography.