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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020K]: Web Development Trial
The above is the home page you will see when you put the address http://live.blog.nzrailwebmaps.nz into your web browser. It is starting as a default WordPress site and as Project spends time customising it, will change in appearance to resemble this blog. As of today, Project has signed with GoDaddy NZ for 1 year for…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020J]: New Production Options
In Project’s last PDR, [2020I], published in August, the development of the nzrailmaps website that had been started at www.blog.nzrailwebmaps.nz was discussed. The site development discussed there is for a static website where the maps are manually generated from the GIS and then uploaded as images to a photo gallery type of site. Project chose…
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North Auckland Line [0W]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 39, 2020
Project recently has completed some mapping of Okaihau / Rangiahua sections, Dargaville / Kaihu sections and North Auckland Line main route. However due to other life priorities work has slowed during the past week and Project does not expect the present very slow progress to show much increase during the current week. Work has started…
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North Auckland Line [0V]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 38, 2020
Apologies for failing to produce these posts for the previous two weeks. Since the last update the following has been completed: Maps drawn of Portland Station, the site of the Wilson Portland Cement Company, now the only cement manufacturer in NZ, which once had its own private railway network and numerous locomotives it owned to…
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North Auckland Line [0U]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 35, 2020
Well last week we took things a bit more slowly and so we got only a little bit of maps work done. Whilst we are still just as busy with other stuff this week, better use of our time means a lot more mapping will be completed over the coming days. Currently, mosaics are being…
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North Auckland Line [0T]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 34, 2020
So the maps are now completed to Waiotira, which is 179 km from Westfield and at the junction of the Dargaville Branch from the NAL. In the last three weeks we drew the maps from Helensville, a track mileage of around 115 km which is quite a good achievement, but not as fast as we…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020I]: Web Site Development – August 2020
As it is generally known, we have a web site at https://blog.nzrailwebmaps.nz. The website is in its early stages of development, and we have still to determine various parameters for it. We are, however, expecting to carry out the following content development options: Add volume galleries of the full set of maps for all of…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020H]: Development Schedule Latest Revision
Over time we have looked into different map development schedules. We first attempted about two years ago to prioritise producing a Basic version of all 12 volumes as a high priority to be completed within months. That however has been re-examined a few times. We have looked at different compromises between getting the maps finished…
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North Auckland Line [0S]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 33, 2020
Since our last report we have advanced the base maps to Kaiwaka at about 140 km from Auckland, which is practically half the entire distance from Westfield to Otiria. This represents good progress under our current rate of resourcing for map production. At the time of our last post we had just completed maps up…
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Future Prospects For Taieri Gorge Railway: Middlemarch Based Rail Heritage?
As we all know, the Taieri Gorge Railway (the Otago Central Branch from Wingatui to Middlemarch) was saved for preservation by public fundraising with the addition of ratepayer funds from Dunedin City Council. The entire route is within the boundaries of Dunedin City since the local government restructuring of 1989 when smaller counties were amalgamated…