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Waiau Branch Bridges: Research Notes
As part of the work of drawing the Waiau Branch, research was undertaken using Archives New Zealand files to locate and detail the branch’s 33 or more bridges. Les Dew’s book “The Great Northern” was also drawn upon as a source, although it contains some errors. For example, it states that there were 32 bridges…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-08
Good evening. This week’s update has been slightly delayed by an upload issue which took a day to resolve, this means the update is being sent now. This week the main update is for the NIMT section of the webmaps, which has had another 200 km added, taking the length covered from Palmerston North to…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-01
Welcome to the first update for February. Looking back, the first month of Webmaps has been a busy month with coverage gradually being increased. The webmaps now cover just over 500 km of the national network, and this is being steadily increased alongside other project work as time allows. Today’s update takes the NIMT coverage…
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NZRM Update 2021-01-24
Good morning. This week’s update to NZ Rail Maps consists of the following: Added NIMT as far as Waikanae to Webmaps Added Johnsonville Branch and Johnsonville-Tawa Section to Webmaps Created the Volumes subsite (accessible using the Volumes link on the menu) to hold static maps. This area will include image galleries, PDFs and GPX files.…
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report [2021A]
Good evening and here is our first global project development report for 2021. These reports are an overview/summary of general development of the NZ Rail Maps project and are typically produced up to 20 times annually. The project as a whole has taken an interesting turn in the latter half of 2020 with the ability…
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NZRM Web Maps Update 2021-01-17
Good morning. This week’s update to the site adds new content as well as some client changes. A separate page from the main webmaps site shows the special set of aerial photos taken of the South Island East Coast following the 2016 Rotherham Earthquake. This is at a resolution of 0.2 metres per pixel and…
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NZRM Web Maps Update 2021-01-09
Good morning. As noted the NZRM Webmaps launched at 1 January and this website appears to be working successfully as a new step forward in making the maps more widely available and convenient to use. The site works best with recent browsers, so it is probably not going to be all that usable for people…
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NZ Rail Maps Web Maps Site Now Live
Good morning and welcome to 2021. The New Zealand Rail Maps Live Webmaps site is now operational. The site as it has been developed to date provides webmaps for just the section of the Main South Line, in Christchurch, that is located between the 10 km and 21 km pegs (Christchurch to Islington). This is…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020O]: New Site Under Development
Good evening. The new NZ Rail Maps site is currently taking shape ahead of its planned launch date of 1 January 2021. At this stage the live maps which are available at that point will include a subset of the Greater Christchurch area. The minimum area available will be the Main South Line between Christchurch…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020N]: New Site Live, Webmaps Available 1 January 2021
The new NZ Rail Maps website is now operational. It looks just like the old one except that there are no webmaps available yet. These however are being created over the next week or two and will be available by 1 January 2021 as mentioned in the last blog post. The webmaps that are available…