chch.live a summit

From the air

aerial view of Edge View and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Edge View

A named lookout on the city’s high ground, 806 metres above the sea, standing over Akaroa.

On the map as
lookout
Height
806m
The suburb
Akaroa

Where it stands

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position, the strong outline is the suburb the map puts it in, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

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

Around it

Questions, answered briefly

What is Edge View?

A named lookout in the open map’s record of Christchurch, 806 metres above the sea, standing over Akaroa.

How high is Edge View?

806 metres, as OpenStreetMap tags it, a mapper’s elevation, not a new survey.

Is the pin on the map exact?

It’s OpenStreetMap’s position, the top or the viewing spot as the volunteer map marks it. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position, elevation and names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named peak or viewpoint inside the city boundary (ODbL). An elevation is the mapper’s tag, not a fresh survey; the dual names are recorded as the map carries them.

This page as markdown: /summit/edge-view.md · every high place as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the old sites below: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.