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From the air

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

Flag Peak

A named summit on the city’s high ground, 809 metres above the sea, standing over Akaroa. Also recorded as “Ōtoki”.

On the map as
summit
Height
809m
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

The reports nearby

1 council report pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

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Questions, answered briefly

What is Flag Peak?

A named summit in the open map’s record of Christchurch, 809 metres above the sea, standing over Akaroa.

How high is Flag Peak?

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

What else is Flag Peak called?

The map also records “Ōtoki”, the page answers to all of them.

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/flag-peak.md · every high place as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the old sites below: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.