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Otago Central Railway [61I]: Finishing Maps – Cromwell-Alexandra 6
A view of Alexandra in 1958: Facilities like the works depot and the fruit loading shelter did not exist then. The APB site which they had just about taken over from the freezing works, was much less developed. There were still four houses in the precinct, and a trolley shed was located at the Cromwell…
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Project Development: Site Styles
This is a very small note about map styles. I have used fills to mark out specific sites of premises which are being served by rail. The issue is that marking the boundaries produces visual clutter on the maps and this has to be weighed against the value of marking it. My feeling at this…
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Otago Central Railway [61H]: Finishing Maps – Cromwell-Alexandra 5
Having moved on to Alexandra, here is a screenshot with the 1983 aerial displayed. The aerials for Alexandra done so far do not need major work done. All that is needed is to adjust the masks to show the oil company sidings and Vacuum Oil on the historic imagery. The other thing is to try…
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Otago Central Railway [61G]: Finishing Maps – Cromwell-Alexandra 4
Having completed the revision of Clyde the focus will now shift to Alexandra. Once this is complete then the full set of maps for Alexandra-Cromwell can be republished on Google Photos via the NZ Rail Maps Volume 12 collection on Google Plus. Here are three views of the second Clyde yard: 1977, 1981 and 2013.…
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Otago Central Railway [61F]: Finishing Maps Cromwell-Alexandra 3
Last time I wrote there were some problems with the aerial photo layer I used to do the Clyde stations. This is a particular hazard with the use of the old aerial photos that are not orthorectified. It was more productive for me to create a completely new aerial photo layer project for Clyde than…
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Otago Central Railway [61E], Main North Line [11L]
So this is what is finalised for the fill styles. These two of Addington show the styles for buildings and structures. This one of the second Clyde station shows the site border styles which are dash-dot patterns. I am working on fixing up the aerial photos which turn out to be correct for 1977 (shown…
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Otago Central Railway [61D]: Finishing Maps – Cromwell-Alexandra 2 / Polygonal Styles 2
Below are two samples of Cromwell and Clyde which show the type of styles I am adopting for buildings, structures and sites. These samples show how the new styles are applied to fills such as sites, buildings and structures. This has come about because whilst I already worked out how to apply a white border…
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Main North Line [11K]: Addington 11 / Polygonal Styles 1
Some samples of the workshops site. The styles still have to be finalised before these are released on the website. The main style that needs to be finalised here is the building outlines, because the styles have been previously designed for diagram use with a plain white background and therefore have a solid black or…
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Main North Line [11J]: Addington 10
As of now here is what has been drawn excluding Plant Zone and the workshops. Apart from adding those areas, generationalising all the track (checking to see how much still exists today) is another task to be completed. I have decided to draw all the yards from scratch (compared to the stuff I did in…
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Main North Line [11I]: Addington 9
I have now refactored and re-rendered all the geojpegs for Addington and have started working on the maps. Along the way some issues have been found with the masking on the composite mosaics requiring some further refactoring and re-rendering. However this isn’t serious enough to affect maps, it just affects the background when they are…