Category: Marton New Plymouth Line
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NZRM Progress Report 2024-01-29: Volume 10, Volume 1, Volume 4
Apologies for such a long time without an update but it is that time of year. At any rate after taking a break for a few weeks a lot of work has been happening on various aspects of the project. Webmaps are not getting a mention just now because there is still a lot of…
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NZRM Update 2021-03-04
Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s NZ Rail Maps Project update. As it says on the Facebook page this week’s update is a few days later than planned, normally updates come out on Mondays. The reason is that it was decided last week the update milestone would be for completing all trunk corridors in…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020D]
So here is our latest update on the overall NZ Rail Maps project. As we made clear earlier this year, we are working on completing all 12 volumes in 2020. That is an aspirational goal and for various reasons it’s quite possible that goal won’t be met. However it is worthwhile making a serious attempt…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0D]: Project Progress Report [4]
Quick update on the MNPL. Have been doing a few different things this week but today I started working back from New Plymouth and Waitara back to Stratford putting in the detail over 50 km of route so that part is completed which is pretty good as it would only take a few more days…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0D]: Project Progress Report [3]
Yesterday’s pause to install a new script to speed up the sectioning of aerial photo layers from Linz turned out to be quite a quick operation to complete, and has enabled the aerial photo selection for the rest of the MNPL project to be sped right up. As a result we now have 99% of…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0C]: Project Progress Report [2]
Following my last post I have nevertheless pushed on with the maps, making life considerably easier for myself by breaking up the workflows. Instead of having a slow, frustrating and often tedious workflow of doing everything in one go, I have the first pass in pegging out the corridor route, and the second pass filling…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [0B]: Progress Report
The last few days working on the MNPL pushing things along towards New Plymouth have been a pretty hard slog, which is reflective of the nature of all the NZ Rail Maps project if I am going to produce full volumes that use current aerial photography as a background. When I first started doing maps…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [3A]: Waitotara – Normanby 1: Bridges 34, 37 and 41 Not used by road traffic
When I first drew maps for the MNPL about five years ago (I had just started to use Qgis but I can’t really put a date on it) the NZMS1 maps for the area between Waitotara and Normanby suggested that three bridges around Waitotara and Patea were combined bridges, used by both road and rail…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [2A]: Westmere-Waitotara 1
I have now finished mapping most of the Whanganui area except for East Town and have decided to do a full Volume 4 with aerial photography for the entire route to New Plymouth, branches and the SOL. There will not be any more Retrolens historical stuff done for MNPL as there are no images available…
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Marton New Plymouth Line [1A]: Whanganui-Castlecliff 1
I am currently looking to bring the maps from Marton to Westmere, the first 50 km of the MNPL, to a conclusion in the next week or so. Probably these will be released as a full set of maps, along with the existing diagrams of the rest of Volume 4. But there may not be…