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Matai Street East

11 reports at 1 address in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 10 separate days somebody filed something about it.

11 reports1 address10 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 3211th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Matai Street East, 11 reports

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Matai Street East, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.

From the air, then

Matai Street East from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Matai Street East from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Matai Street East from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Matai Street East?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Matai Street East?

11 reports at 1 address, most often roads & footpaths (6), everything else (2), trees & parks (2).

When was Matai Street East first reported on?

2021, the record covers 10 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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