Category: Main North Line
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Waiau Branch Bridges: Research Notes
As part of the work of drawing the Waiau Branch, research was undertaken using Archives New Zealand files to locate and detail the branch’s 33 or more bridges. Les Dew’s book “The Great Northern” was also drawn upon as a source, although it contains some errors. For example, it states that there were 32 bridges…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-08
Good evening. This week’s update has been slightly delayed by an upload issue which took a day to resolve, this means the update is being sent now. This week the main update is for the NIMT section of the webmaps, which has had another 200 km added, taking the length covered from Palmerston North to…
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NZRM Web Maps Update 2021-01-17
Good morning. This week’s update to the site adds new content as well as some client changes. A separate page from the main webmaps site shows the special set of aerial photos taken of the South Island East Coast following the 2016 Rotherham Earthquake. This is at a resolution of 0.2 metres per pixel and…
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NZRM Web Maps Update 2021-01-09
Good morning. As noted the NZRM Webmaps launched at 1 January and this website appears to be working successfully as a new step forward in making the maps more widely available and convenient to use. The site works best with recent browsers, so it is probably not going to be all that usable for people…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020N]: New Site Live, Webmaps Available 1 January 2021
The new NZ Rail Maps website is now operational. It looks just like the old one except that there are no webmaps available yet. These however are being created over the next week or two and will be available by 1 January 2021 as mentioned in the last blog post. The webmaps that are available…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020M]: New Web Maps Site To Go Live 1 January 2021
Good morning. As can be seen, this is only the second update for December so far as the project management has been very busy as is common for this type of year. A considerable part of this has been tied up with migrating the affiliated converser.nz website to a new web hosting platform. This work…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [5]
Good afternoon and here is this week’s update on the webmap development preview for Greater Christchurch. Since our last post a lot more work has been completed on the Main South Line section and accordingly it is in fact complete except for any errors that are discovered and need to be resolved. Work has also…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [4]
Good evening. Since the last post nearly 2 weeks ago work has focused on completion of the aerial mosaics, and with the ongoing work taking a lot of effort, these mosaics are still a wee way off completion. The current rate of progress is: From Heathcote to Addington and from Hornby to Templeton on MSL…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [3]
This post is a series on the development of a new web maps preview for the Greater Christchurch area. The creation of this preview is currently intended to be used to promote the utility of the maps for the Greater Christchurch area, to give access to historical and current day information about the Greater Christchurch,…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch
Good afternoon. Here is this week’s update summary for the NZ Rail Maps Project. So far, in order to aid the development model for the new web site, we have created two different development previews: Volume 1 (North Auckland Line) and Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line). These have reflected several development levels proposed for the maps:…