Category: Project Development
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NZ Rail Maps Project Direction/ Development Proposals [2019B]
Following on from my post earlier today, I will be working on the direction proposals over the next few days and probably there will be a conclusion by Friday. The twelve volumes are as follows and the work on each volume to date can be summarised as follows: Volume 1 – North Auckland Line. This…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Direction/ Development Proposals [2019A]
The organisational scheme of work on NZ Rail Maps is currently being reconsidered. At the moment I am considering whether to focus on one volume at a time for publication as I have done so in the project at various times, or work on multiple volumes simultaneously as I have lately. I spent much of…
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Waiau Branch [0A]: Series numbering for Waiau Branch articles
We have decided to produce a series of aerial photos for the stations on the Waiau Branch. This will be spasmodic with no set timetable and will be fitted around our existing production schedule. There was no schedule planned originally but because the stations are so small and simple, I have completed a set of…
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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 [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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Historic Map Mileages
One of the features of NZ Rail Maps is the decision to only use Working Timetable mileages or kilometrages instead of other sources that may not be accurate. The Quail Atlas is the obvious source of distances that have been shown to be inaccurate. It would seem this is because, instead of digging up the…
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Project Updates 1/1/2019
Welcome to the new year. Since the last time I have been busy working on a few sidelines. Maps have been produced in two other areas in particular: a map of the closed Turakina-Okoia route of the MNPL, which was bypassed with a deviation in 1947, and starting to have a look at updates to…
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Project development: Work programme for 2019
In my last few posts I have talked about the PNGL mapping I am working on. I have just about completed downloading the base aerial photography, and are working on mosaics for almost every station on the line. This is Volume 5 of the 12 volume map series and the PNGL and its branches is…