chch.live a summit

From the air

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

Planetable

A named lookout on the city’s high ground, standing over Hillsborough.

On the map as
lookout
The suburb
Hillsborough

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

30 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Trees & parks, 25 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Litter 16 The Crescent · 18 February 2026
Fallen Tree Canterbury · 30 October 2025
Park - General Request Canterbury · 16 September 2025
Pavement - General 16 The Crescent · 2 September 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is Planetable?

A named lookout in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing over Hillsborough.

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