Category: Main South Line
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Main North Line [11G]: Addington 7
This is just a quick progress update. The refactoring is progressing well but the week is busy (week before Easter) with other things so not much is going to be done over the next few days. As my goal is to have all three pieces of Addington completed before doing any maps, it could be…
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Main North Line [11F]: Addington 6; Otago Central Railway [62B]: Km Pegs 2
So Addington is being more or less recreated from scratch. Doing the adjustment in the middle part (Addington North as it is called in my computer) covering the Main North Line going north to Riccarton was actually relatively quick and easy to fix, as with all the linked layers, moving one moved all the others,…
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Main North Line [11E]: Addington 5
Well, Friday has been a whole lot more mucking around to make various adjustments to all of the Addington stuff, mainly in the area of adjusting the masking for the partial images. This has resulted in needing to re-render all the partial map tiles which is a relatively slow process. Hence the maps have not…
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Main North Line [11F]: Addington 6
Today’s not-news is of yet another hold up in mapping. Because I made the stupendous discovery that some of the tracks aren’t lined up between the old and new aerial images. Unfortunately the nature of historical aerial imagery means that this is a risk. It’s my regret that the process I used did not pick…
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Main North Line [11D]: Addington 4
Welcome to our Facebook Group readers (NZRailMapz) as this will be the first entirely automated blog post sent to you, courtesy of IFTTT and the Buffer service. I already use IFTTT to syndicate my posts on the NZRM Facebook page, but now they are expected to automagically feed to the group as well. Latest progress…
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Main North Line [11C]: Addington 3
So as of last night I have finished laying out the Addington North mosaics in Gimp. Today’s job is to mask off the relevant bits of the retro images, and then render the part and full images for Qgis. Whilst I have enough now to start mapping Addington, I have determined to do only two…
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Main North Line [11A]: Addington, etc
Having completed sorting through aerial photos of the MNL and now having a complete set, the next task is to start doing stuff with the photos. The first thing that will happen is I will do a set of historical maps for Addington, as that is where the MNL starts. When I first started looking…
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Dunedin-Mosgiel Improvement Works 1907-1914
Few people would know today that more than 100 years ago the railway to the south of Dunedin was very different than it is today. The large embankment as it can be seen in many places, particularly between Dunedin and Caversham, simply did not exist in the original construction works as the railway was built.…
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MSL Dunedin (2J): Updating / Blanket Bay
As you can see I haven’t actually put anything out about the station yard. That’s because I have got hold of some 1947 aerial photos that will probably be the best ones to see if I can use them for the station yard, if they are sharp enough. Anyway let’s look at something else. Blanket…
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MSL Palmerston-Dunedin [9]: Dunback & Makareao Branches
Today’s effort has been to update the maps for the Dunback and Makareao Branches. I am not actually going to post very much here. Go and have a look at the Volume 11 section of the NZ Rail Maps website which I have just set up with the content for these lines and others. http://volume11.nzrailmaps.nz/