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Archives New Zealand restricts reading room access nationwide
Being registered to do research with Archives New Zealand, our government department that stores up historical government records, I received an email today advising that nationwide reductions in reading room hours will be implemented as of March 2020. All reading rooms nationwide will be open for only four hours per day instead of 7.5 –…
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Project Diary 2019-11-02: Christchurch Maps
Click here to view this article on NZ Rail Maps Blog Project Diary 2019-11-02: Christchurch Maps
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Project Diary 2019-11-02: Christchurch Maps
Our first blog post for November. Map production this week has been limited to a complex fix for a problem discovered in the Heathcote-Ferrymead maps for 1985. Trying to align two different rail lines in four places simultaneously can be very complex. Cutting the Main South Line out through the back of Ferrymead is a…
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Project DIary 2019-10-26: Christchurch Maps
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Project DIary 2019-10-26: Christchurch Maps
It’s been another busy week of gathering research information and a lot of work pulling out map tiles. As noted in previous posts, we spend a lot of time each week, currently around 6 hours, researching all the stations in the Greater Christchurch area. This will involve viewing around 50 files a week and copying…
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Project Diary 2019-10-18: Christchurch Maps
Click here to view this article on NZ Rail Maps Blog Project Diary 2019-10-18: Christchurch Maps
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Project Diary 2019-10-18: Christchurch Maps
Progress on the maps this week has continued to focus on the Main North Line section of Greater Christchurch. This inches on towards completion with, we estimate, just a week more work to finish it. Quite a bit of work was needed just to add a 1955 aerial image showing the old route between Chaneys…
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Project Diary 2019-10-12: Christchurch Maps
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Project Diary 2019-10-12: Christchurch Maps
Local government election results are in and the unfortunate conclusion is we will not see much that improves Public Transport over the next three years in Greater Christchurch. More about this in Christchurch Transport Blog in the next few days. Meanwhile Greater Christchurch maps are the main focus this week again and in recognition of…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2019L]
Click here to view this article on NZ Rail Maps Blog NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2019L]