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  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020M]: New Web Maps Site To Go Live 1 January 2021

    Good morning. As can be seen, this is only the second update for December so far as the project management has been very busy as is common for this type of year. A considerable part of this has been tied up with migrating the affiliated converser.nz website to a new web hosting platform. This work…

  • Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [5]

    Good afternoon and here is this week’s update on the webmap development preview for Greater Christchurch. Since our last post a lot more work has been completed on the Main South Line section and accordingly it is in fact complete except for any errors that are discovered and need to be resolved. Work has also…

  • Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [4]

    Good evening. Since the last post nearly 2 weeks ago work has focused on completion of the aerial mosaics, and with the ongoing work taking a lot of effort, these mosaics are still a wee way off completion. The current rate of progress is: From Heathcote to Addington and from Hornby to Templeton on MSL…

  • Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [3]

    This post is a series on the development of a new web maps preview for the Greater Christchurch area. The creation of this preview is currently intended to be used to promote the utility of the maps for the Greater Christchurch area, to give access to historical and current day information about the Greater Christchurch,…

  • Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [2]

    Last time we talked about the process of developing a preview for Greater Christchurch and it was hoped we could have it ready in a few days. Now we are a week into this process and although good progress has been made on this task, it’s been necessary to juggle whether to spend time getting…

  • Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch

    Good afternoon. Here is this week’s update summary for the NZ Rail Maps Project. So far, in order to aid the development model for the new web site, we have created two different development previews: Volume 1 (North Auckland Line) and Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line). These have reflected several development levels proposed for the maps:…

  • Wairarapa Line (Volume 6) Webmaps Preview

    Good afternoon. In our last blog post we proposed that web maps for Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line), based on the previously published static images for Volume 6, would become available this week. We are pleased to announce that a preview for part of Volume 6, from Wellington to Waterloo in the Hutt Valley, is now…

  • North Auckland Line [0Y]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 42, 2020

    Good morning. Last week’s blog referred to samples of Southdown and suggested a method of providing access to specific levels of aerial photography for each station. This week, instead of other map work, time was taken to reflect on further options for displaying aerial photography, and even although another week has gone by with seemingly…

  • North Auckland Line [0X]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 41, 2020

    Good morning. In the last couple of weeks, work has focused both on adding more detail to the maps as is the usual effort, and developing the website. The latter proceeds slowly by steps as it is in effect a completely from the ground up effort which has started from the bare bones of a…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020L]: Welcome to the new NZ Rail Maps Web Site

    If you’re reading this on Facebook or on our Groups.io project group then welcome to our new web site. NZRM Project is developing this site following a decision to migrate to a full web tile maps system for providing NZ Rail Maps content over the Internet. As Volume 1 of the entire maps project is…