Welcome to another PNGL Volume 5 progress update. Hopefully the next one will tell you the volume has been published. The main progress that has been done since last time is we have added aerial photo generations to the Napier maps. So we have historical aerial mosaic tiles for 1951, 1973, 1983 and 1996. We…

Welcome to the Volume 5 Progress Update 24. We are moving on steadily with our plan to publish the full volume online not later than tomorrow, Saturday 8 February, 2019 and things are working to schedule. The last couple of days have been spent expanding the historical aerial coverage of Napier to what can be…

Yesterday we wrote about how important it was to stay on track and meet a deadline. Today we are tossing up how much flexibility we can have to meet a deadline and still be able to squeeze some more content into the maps before they are published. Recently the map format was changed so that…

So here is the latest progress report on completing Volume 5, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, of NZ Rail Maps. When we started to work on this late last year we set a deadline for completion which we thought would be the end of January. As we can see this is the first week of February…

Today’s big achievement has been to solve a software reliability issue which had caused the completion work to grind to nearly a halt and resulted in the work of creating the Ngatapa and Matawai-Wairata map sets to be stalled for a few days. We achieved this by using a virtual machine to install an older…