chch.live a summit

From the air

aerial view of Te Moenga-o-Wheke / The Tors and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Te Moenga-o-Wheke / The Tors

A named summit on the city’s high ground, 464 metres above the sea, standing over Heathcote Valley. Also recorded as “Te Moenga-o-Wheke”.

On the map as
summit
Height
464m
The suburb
Heathcote Valley

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

6 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Everything else, 6 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Te Moenga-o-Wheke / The Tors?

A named summit in the open map’s record of Christchurch, 464 metres above the sea, standing over Heathcote Valley.

How high is Te Moenga-o-Wheke / The Tors?

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

What else is Te Moenga-o-Wheke / The Tors called?

The map also records “Te Moenga-o-Wheke”, 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/te-moenga-o-wheke-the-tors.md · every high place as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the old sites below: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.