Waimairi Stream
A stream of the city, 5.1 km as the open map draws it, crossing 4 suburbs. Also recorded as “Waimairi” and “Waimairiiri”.
Where it runs
The centre of the water as OpenStreetMap draws it, centrelines, not banks, and not every reach carries water year-round. The faint outlines are suburbs.
The suburbs on its banks
On the register along it
Listed places within about 200m of the line, near the water, not necessarily of it.
The reports along it
2,697 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 2,166 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Poles and Signage - General
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Facility - General Request
Hazard, vehicle
Animal - Deceased
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Park - General Request
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Dumped Rubbish
Hazard, vehicle
Pavement - DamagedWalks that cross it
The bush and the great houses · The old estates · The college and the homesteads
Questions, answered briefly
5.1 km as mapped, 15 ways in the open map, crossing 4 suburbs.
Avonhead, Burnside, Fendalton, Ilam.
The map also records “Waimairi” and “Waimairiiri”, the page answers to all of them.
8 register places sit within 200m of its line, each opens its own record from this page.
The record behind this
The line is OpenStreetMap’s, every named way tagged river, stream, drain or canal inside the city boundary, merged by name (ODbL). A line says where a waterway runs, not how wide it is; the live gauges are instruments, kept on /rivers.
This page as markdown: /river/waimairi-stream.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.