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From the air

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

Purple Peak

A named summit on the city’s high ground, 646 metres above the sea, standing over Akaroa. Also recorded as “Te Piki o Te Ake”.

On the map as
summit
Height
646m
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

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay Inside a kept landscape, ONL16.2 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Rural Banks Peninsula RuBP The nearest recorded shake: M3.5 1 October 2010 · 5.6 km from the pin

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

Around it

Parikura high place · ~250 m Skyline Beech Lookout high place · ~750 m Edge View high place · ~900 m Stony Bay Peak high place · ~900 m

Questions, answered briefly

What is Purple Peak?

A named summit in the open map’s record of Christchurch, 646 metres above the sea, standing over Akaroa.

How high is Purple Peak?

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

What else is Purple Peak called?

The map also records “Te Piki o Te Ake”, 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/purple-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.