Category: Kingston Branch
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Kingston Branch [1B]: Lumsden-Mararoa-Mossburn 2 – Mararoa 1, Castlerock 1
Mararoa Junction mosaic using 1977 aerial footage. 1946 view of Castlerock with what is clearly a ballast pit.
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Kingston Branch [1A]: Lumsden-Mararoa-Mossburn 1 – Intro
As of today there will be a new series on the Kingston Branch and this will run alongside the Otago Central Railway series. The reason for doing Kingston Branch stuff is that it is the other major branch line that is in Volume 12 of the maps, and since this content has to be added…
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Waiau Branch [1K]: Full aerials added to maps
One of the changes I am now doing with all the aerial mosaics is to render tiles that contain the full aerial photography for an area so that these full images can be used as part of the maps produced. The full aerial images are mainly of benefit for seeing how a greater area around…
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Otago Central Railway [63B]: Ranfurly-Alexandra 2
So a few days break and then it’s time to get going again with the next segment of the maps. In the last couple of days I have fixed the black edges on the LDS aerial backgrounds around Chatto Creek. This constitutes all of the issues needing to be resolved with LDS base imagery. The…
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Project Development: Aerial Photography Selection
Progress on the OCR maps has been slow this week because of other work. As far as the maps go, work on the Main South Line maps around Dunedin has been a greater priority. I had an enquiry for the maps around Dunedin Locomotive Depot and it was decided at the same time to download…
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New compositions [2]
Following on from the previous post about discussing where things can go after Otago Central I have been looking at aerial imagery available for North Canterbury (Waiau Branch and MNL) and Hawkes Bay / Eastland (NGL). At the same time I am also looking at Volume 12 completion (Kingston Branch and its various branches, but…