Category: Main South Line
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1D]: Christchurch Station 4
So I have finally completed the aerial mosaics that will now cover from the western station limits of Christchurch all the way to Opawa. As usual it has just proved easier to add the images for Linwood and Opawa to the Christchurch ones and so these extra steps have been completed along with Christchurch/Waltham. In…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1C]: Christchurch Station 3
The past few days have been busy, however I have made a reasonable amount of progress and these images reflect that. I expect to have the mosaic map tiles for the entire area of Christchurch ready by the end of this week. Here are samples. Right now I just need to add one more aerial…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1B]: Christchurch Station 2
Working with Gimp over the past couple of days has led me to knowledge that will massively speed up the creation of mosaics. Briefly that is the ability to drag-rotate an image in place with a preview of what it will look like for each rotation, and to drag-scale an image in place with a…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [1A]: Christchurch Station 1
So here is what is being mapped first of all. This area just had industrial sidings except for B Shed. As you can see the map tile boundaries conveniently end just off the west side of the Colombo St overbridge. This map shows the B shed area itself. Opposite it are the Dalgety premises with…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [0A]: Christchurch Station – Introduction
Well this is a new series that will cover the Main South Line within the Christchurch suburban limits (Christchurch-Rolleston). We have already had a detailed look at Addington, which was treated as part of the Main North Line, as it is a junction station. Christchurch is immediately west of Addington, and the mosaic aerial maps…
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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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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…
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Main North Line [11H]: Addington 8
Selwyn Street, Christchurch.