Wairarapa Stream
A stream of the city, 5.5 km as the open map draws it, crossing 7 suburbs. Also recorded as “Wairarapa”.
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
Bryndwr · Burnside · Fendalton · Ilam · Merivale · Riccarton · Strowan
On the register along it
Listed places within about 200m of the line, near the water, not necessarily of it.
The reports along it
3,216 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 2,543 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Water Leak
Traffic Signals
Pavement - Damaged
Overgrown Vegetation
Water Leak
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Damaged Street Sign
Water Leak
Water Leak
Playground Equipment
Damaged Street Sign
Animal - DeceasedWalks that cross it
The bush and the great houses · The old estates · The houses the avenues kept
Questions, answered briefly
5.5 km as mapped, 14 ways in the open map, crossing 7 suburbs.
Bryndwr, Burnside, Fendalton, Ilam, and 3 more.
The map also records “Wairarapa”, the page answers to all of them.
12 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/wairarapa-stream.md · every waterway as data: /waterways.geojson · /waterways.json · every roll, counted: /geography.