Category: Project Development
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MSL Timaru-Glenavy [0A]: Intro 1
For our series of articles on the Main South Line we will break the corridor up into sections and these sections are chosen mostly on prominent stations but also in this case a geographic boundary. Glenavy is on the north bank of the Waitaki river which is the historical boundary between the provinces of Otago…
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Otago Central Railway [47J]: Current delay in OCR maps
The current effort on NZ Rail Maps to map the Otago Central Line started in November of 2017 – about 18 months ago. It was at that time with the first of the posts in series 47 that we started the widespread use of the LINZ background imagery and bringing in historical imagery with the…
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MSL Rolleston-Timaru [0A]: Intro 1
With this particular article I am making it clear I am working towards Volume 11 as a major effort to get something that is actually going to be completed as a volume as soon as possible. This will not be a continuous effort throughout the year but it will be a major focus for the…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [0B]: Christchurch-Hornby Intro
Following on from recent efforts to speed up mosaic production, due to having discovered the best way to combine multiple stations or a continuous length of corridor into one Gimp project, I have started doing this with the MSL around Christchurch. Yesterday and part of today has been spent combining several smaller projects into a…
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Project Development Report [2019G]
In the last couple of weeks I drew maps of Sockburn. I haven’t got around to blogging that, instead I just posted the album of maps on the group and another group. A lot of maps production in some areas is more than drawing maps, it is software upgrades and other steps and dealing with…
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Project Development Report [2019F]
Since last time there has been some progress on Volume 1 but not as much as I had expected. There have been delays for two main reasons, both of them related to the migration to version 3.6 of Qgis. These are simply migrating computers to a new version of Debian, and then discovering it caused…
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Project Development Report [2019E] & North Auckland Line [0C]: Progress Report 3
As a result of a lot of hard work I now have practically all of the base aerial photography for Northland which lets me complete the full set of maps for Volume 1. However it looks like I am a bit behind schedule on the timeframe for all 12 volumes for this year and so…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Direction/ Development Proposals [2019D]
This is a more in depth look at what we hope to see developed in the Project in 2019. All of Volumes 1-12 will be developed to a Basic level. In addition the following content is planned to be developed to a Comprehensive level: Volume 1: Selected stations in the Far North. Volume 2: Auckland…
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Main North Line [0B]: Volume 10 Progress Report [1]
As part of the development work on various volumes, I am currently working to get a full set of maps of the Main North Line and mapping a few stations in North Canterbury. You can expect to see some maps soon of Amberley, Glasnevin, Waipara, Culverden and possibly some stations on the Waiau Branch, and…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Direction/ Development Proposals [2019C]
After considering the matters raised in previous posts I have decided to go ahead with creating all 12 volumes simultaneously this year. One of the most significant reasons for this is that I do not have up to date content for a significant number of volumes of the maps and it’s been a consideration on…