Category: Aerial Photography
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Wairarapa Line [0R]: Volume 6 Progress Update 18
Good day to our readers. This update is quite soon after the last one but that one was so delayed waiting for us to put in maps of Silverstream that we just sent it out incomplete. We do now have these maps and some examples are below. A key focus for this update has been…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0Q]: Volume 5 Progress Update 17
After our last post about extra work being discovered as we got into more depth of working on lines in the Gisborne area, that trend has continued today. Whilst in the course of tidying up all the aerial photography around the Gisborne area and labelling many of the sidings off the main line, we discovered…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020B]
This report as always with these reports is a general overview of the project as a whole across all volumes. Our earlier report 2020A was written on the first day of the year and outlined our expected programme for map development across the whole project this year. At present with the development of the maps…
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Otago Central Railway [64A]: Middlemarch-Ranfurly 1 / OCR Maps From Here
This isn’t a new series as such but it is about adding to the work already done in this sector of mapping the OCR. Yesterday I had a look for new Retrolens aerial photo content for the stations in the Ida Valley area and have obtained a significant amount from recent RL additions. I then…
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Otago Central Railway [53]: Aerial coverage from future Retrolens
As we know, to be able to draw my maps, I have made extensive use of aerial photography. Retrolens is where most of this is coming from these days as I have wound down getting contact prints scanned from Archives NZ to reduce cost. There are a few areas I have not yet got coverage…
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Significant changes in maps unlikely as result of new aerial photography availability
In recent posts I have talked about Retrolens and their new aerial photography. One of my recent posts made the point that I don’t expect the work done with the Nelson Section maps to be replicated across all the maps I am drawing. Whilst the aerial photography has been very useful and I will be…