Category: Project Development
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Project update
Quick update as to where things are up to right now. I was busy over the weekend doing some local transport activism so there hasn’t quite been the expected progress. However I expect to have the Methven branch tiles finished today ready to begin mapping and also push on with the Otago Central Railway at…
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Old working timetable mileages
I have spent a bit of time over the last two weeks looking at resources from the local library. NZRLS over a number of years have published some working timetables of the NZR network and they do contain a lot of detail that can be useful for various purposes. However except for a list of…
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Handheld Navigation
Last week I touched on the subject of how to use the maps “in the field” and the challenges faced. Here is a map from the volume of the Napier-Gisborne line. I travelled from Wellington to Gisborne on the 22nd of June and returned to Wellington on the 24th. From there with a bit of…
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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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Map production update
People who have been following this project for a while know that we did issue map collections for a considerable portion of New Zealand when we were using Flickr to store these collections. As a result of the reorganisation of NZ Rail Maps resources when the website was set up, the Flickr collections were taken…
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Field testing maps
This week we’ve had a bit of a field test of the maps just to evaluate some of the different ways they potentially could be used. Having been both on and off net over the course of a 2000 km trip, and travelling by road most of the time, we’ve had a bit of a…
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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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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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Otago Central Railway [61O]: Cromwell-Alexandra 12
So the focus right now on the Cromwell-Alexandra section is on three areas: the Cromwell Gorge aerial photography, Clyde yard (both sites) and Alexandra yard. These three aspects are being pushed along more or less simultaneously and as quickly as possible so that the maps can be complete. In relation particularly to the yards, I…