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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0G]: Volume 5 Progress Update 7
Having created aerial maps and diagram maps for the Moutohora Branch we are currently generating the same for the main line (PN to Gisborne). So far there are 43 individual maps or diagrams for the 54 km from Palmerston North to Dannevirke. It takes a lot of time to generate each map out of the…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0F]: Volume 5 Progress Update 6
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0F]: Volume 5 Progress Update 6
This is a brief update to work ongoing to produce Volume 5 to Basic level of maps. Volume 5 covers the Palmerston North Gisborne Line, which is 390 km long, and two branch lines – Ngatapa Branch and Moutohora Branch – plus associated sidings etc. The work of mapping the main line corridor and various…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development: Work Programme For 2020
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020A]: Work Programme For 2020
Welcome to the new year of 2020. This article is really just a summary of previous recent posts setting out our development priorities for the NZ Rail Maps project for 2020. As noted in those posts, it is mainly a rehash of the 2019 vision, which was largely not completed as planned, but is now…
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Open Access Claims One Sided, Incorrect
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Map Development Levels [3]: Comprehensive Level
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Open Access Claims One Sided, Incorrect
At the moment various National Party supporters are claiming we should have an open access rail freight network, for example as described here. This is essentially a call for Kiwirail’s freight operations to be privatised and opened up to competition. At the moment, Kiwirail does not actually compete with private transport companies for freight. They…
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Map Development Levels [3]: Comprehensive Level
Yesterday we posted about the Basic and Intermediate levels of the maps of the NZ Rail Maps project. Today we are going to have an in depth look at the Comprehensive level of the maps. The main additional level of information added at Comprehensive level is georeferenced historical maps. This requires that the aerial photography…
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Map Development Levels [2]: Intermediate Level
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