Category: Palmerston North Gisborne Line
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [3A]: Gisborne City 1
Today’s effort has been drawing maps of Gisborne City. One branch of our extended family has been well established in Gisborne for more than 60 years and we regularly visited the city at the time when our household was in the North Island and somewhat less often after we relocated to the South Island, last…
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PNGL Maps Update [2C]
Having evaluated some diagrams and produced a full set for the Main North Line, I am expecting to produce a full set for the PNGL fairly soon. This will update the status of the line, as it is being reopened to Wairoa, with Kiwirail work trains active at present. Watch this space for further detail…
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PNGL Maps Update [2B]
Following on from the last post I have updated one of the images in the collection (the one that covers Ormondville). The address again (this time spelt out for those reading this post syndicated to FB): https://plus.google.com/u/1/collection/gLz5TE Basically I have added two points to every font size on the map. The result is much more…
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PNGL Maps Update [2A]
The first set of samples for handheld navigation have been produced for testing. I have tested these with a phone (Nexus 5X) and with a 8″ Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet. The collection for Volume 5 is located here Here is the first of the maps in the collection. Whilst the maps look good on…
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PNGL Maps Update [1]
As I have mentioned on other posts recently I am working towards re-issuing the existing map diagrams for a number of areas where they were available in the past, but have not been online since changing over to Google Photos as a display system.One of the map sections which I am looking to re-issue in…
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Maps from other people or in other formats
Here is a link to a post on Facebook about a map of the Moutohora Branch drawn by Graeme Jupp who is a retired professional cartographer. If you are not a member of the group the post appeared in you will have to join, if they won’t let you in too bad, I can’t do…
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Project Update
It’ll be a few days until I have some more stuff to publish so this is just a quick interim update. Otago Central Railway: Right now I am finishing off the map of Chatto Creek with adding the extra aerial photos from 1938 and 1956 to the 1965 image that I already have. So pretty…
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Waiau Branch [1K]: Full aerials added to maps
One of the changes I am now doing with all the aerial mosaics is to render tiles that contain the full aerial photography for an area so that these full images can be used as part of the maps produced. The full aerial images are mainly of benefit for seeing how a greater area around…
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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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New compositions [2]
Following on from the previous post about discussing where things can go after Otago Central I have been looking at aerial imagery available for North Canterbury (Waiau Branch and MNL) and Hawkes Bay / Eastland (NGL). At the same time I am also looking at Volume 12 completion (Kingston Branch and its various branches, but…