Category: Main South Line
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Fairlie Branch Stations [1]: Racecourse – Waitawa
This post is about the stations on the Fairlie Branch and there will be two or three posts on this topic. It’s a long time since anything like this has been written on this blog (in fact all the posts of this type generally go back to Blogger days) and there isn’t any plan concerning…
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NZRM Update This Week
This week, Stage 1 of the NZ Rail Maps Web Maps will be completed. At the time of publishing this blog, Volume 11 has been completed and is being checked for completeness, whilst Volumes 7 and 8 are currently being added to the webmaps and will be completed over the next day or two. Apart…
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NZRM Update 2021-04-06
Good evening. This week’s update to the NZ Rail Maps webmaps site completes the addition of content for Volume 12. Volume 12 is essentially an overflow volume from Volume 11 (Main South Line) and includes all branch lines south of Dunedin. It was proposed originally this update would include more content but this week the…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-18
Good morning. This week’s update is two updates combined, which accounts for it being later than usual. The reason for combining two updates is to allow the rest of this week to be focused on another part of the project whilst continuing to maintain the desired schedule of webmaps generation. As of today the webmaps…
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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 [2]
Last time we talked about the process of developing a preview for Greater Christchurch and it was hoped we could have it ready in a few days. Now we are a week into this process and although good progress has been made on this task, it’s been necessary to juggle whether to spend time getting…