From the air

French Hill

A named summit on the city’s high ground, 815 metres above the sea, standing over Little River. Also recorded as “Puha”.

On the map as

summit

Height

815m

The suburb

Little River

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

Inside a recorded flood footprint 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay Inside a kept landscape, ONL21.0 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Rural Banks Peninsula RuBP The nearest recorded shake: M4 11 September 2010 · 2.9 km from the pin · 4 logged within 5 km

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

Around it

Akaroa Harbour View high place · 2.5 km Rocky Peak high place · 3.8 km Saddle Hill high place · 3.8 km Mount Sinclair high place · 5.5 km

Questions, answered briefly

What is French Hill?

A named summit in the open map’s record of Christchurch, 815 metres above the sea, standing over Little River.

How high is French Hill?

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

What else is French Hill called?

The map also records “Puha”, 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/french-hill.md · every high place as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the old sites below: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.