We are pushing on with all possible speed to complete this volume of maps, but some late changes have meant that the maps for the Makaraka Branch have had to be redrawn for the second time this week. This means the series of maps for this line have been generated three times in total over…

Well after our announcement earlier in the week of further great progress being expected, things slowed down a lot due to other commitments, the result being the maps are not finished by the end of the week (i.e. today). However we do have all map tiles completed for tracing and are steadily pushing ahead with…

In the last couple of days progress has not been quite as rapid as last week but we have made a start on extracting the historical map tiles for all of the areas that are being added in Volume 5. These are for Terrace End, Woodville, Dannevirke and Waipukurau. In addition we have completed and…

As the regular updates show, we continue to make considerable progress on the Volume 5 basic maps. Since yesterday all of the historical map mosaics for this volume have been completed with projects generated for Terrace End (Palmerston North), Woodville, Waipukurau and Dannevirke in addition to the ones already put together for the Gisborne area.…

We are continuing to progress the completion of Volume 5 as quickly as possible. This currently requires a number of steps: The first 92 aerial maps plus a few of individual stations after this point need to be regenerated in the new styles. This is well under way and should be completed shortly. Historic map…

We have now completed the generation of maps of the Palmerston North Gisborne Line mainline corridor. Compared with the progress reported yesterday in progress update 8, Day 5 progress is now a total distance from 228 to 390 km in 5.5 hours, which in comparison to Day 4 is a marathon rate of output.  However…

In addition to the production of the maps themselves, a lot of changes have been made to the amount of detail displayed particularly on the aerial maps and in terms of generations of aerial maps. For certain areas we have chosen to produce multiple generations of historical map tiles. This means that some of the…

On January 4th we commenced production of maps for the main line corridor of Volume 5, which is the Palmerston North Gisborne Line (PNGL) being 390 km from Palmerston North. Progress rates so far has been as follows: Day 1: 0 – 26 km in 1 hour Day 2: 27 – 50 km in 1…

Having created aerial maps and diagram maps for the Moutohora Branch we are currently generating the same for the main line (PN to Gisborne). So far there are 43 individual maps or diagrams for the 54 km from Palmerston North to Dannevirke. It takes a lot of time to generate each map out of the…

This is a brief update to work ongoing to produce Volume 5 to Basic level of maps. Volume 5 covers the Palmerston North Gisborne Line, which is 390 km long, and two branch lines – Ngatapa Branch and Moutohora Branch – plus associated sidings etc. The work of mapping the main line corridor and various…