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From the air

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

Wooden Seat

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

On the map as
lookout
The suburb
Hillmorton

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

176 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Trees & parks, 144 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - General Canterbury · 26 June 2026
Water Leak Canterbury · 23 June 2026
Water Leak Canterbury · 23 June 2026
Water Leak Canterbury · 23 June 2026
Fallen Tree Warren Crescent, Hillmorton Christchurch 8825 · 9 April 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Wooden Seat?

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

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