Saddle Hill

A named summit on the city’s high ground, 841 metres above the sea, standing over Wainui. Also recorded as “Puaitaha”.

On the map as

summit

Height

841m

The suburb

Wainui

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 2008 Akaroa Basin Harbour Settlements Study Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay On a plan-scheduled ecology site identified in the schedule Inside a kept landscape, ONL25.2 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Rural Banks Peninsula RuBP The nearest recorded shake: M3 8 September 2010 · 1.8 km from the pin · 2 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

Rocky Peak high place · 2.7 km Carews Peak high place · 3.6 km French Hill high place · 3.8 km Devils Gap high place · 4.0 km

Questions, answered briefly

What is Saddle Hill?

A named summit in the open map’s record of Christchurch, 841 metres above the sea, standing over Wainui.

How high is Saddle Hill?

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

What else is Saddle Hill called?

The map also records “Puaitaha”, 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/saddle-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.