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From the air

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

Sign of the Takahe Lookout

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

On the map as
lookout
The suburb
Cashmere
Register places near it
1

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.

On the register nearby

Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the spot, not the spot itself unless the register says so.

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

433 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 335 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Water Leak 2 Pentre Terrace, Cashmere · 8 October 2026
Park - General Request Canterbury · 3 October 2026
Damaged Street Sign 199 Hackthorne Rd · 29 September 2026
Trees - General 16A Takahe Dr · 9 September 2026
Pothole 128 Dyers Pass Road, Cashmere · 2 September 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 168–176 Hackthorne Rd · 31 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Sign of the Takahe Lookout?

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

What’s on the register near Sign of the Takahe Lookout?

1 listed place within 300m of the pin, each opens its own record from this page.

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