Category: Project Development
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Midland Line [1A]: Otira-Greymouth 1: Stillwater
Just for something completely random but it is happening because the Midland Line and particularly the Stillwater Ngakawau Line are two where I need to finish off the basic detailing. With the help of Linz aerial photos I will also draw in any yard tracks and sidings found along the way. These posts are not…
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Project finalisation
At the moment I am tidying up loose ends as I plan how much can be completed by the end of the project which at the moment is going to end in December of this year. Five months from now. Naturally the Otago Central will be the most complete line although there is a lot…
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Otago Central Railway [31F]: Alexandra aerial photos 2
Well in OCR[32] I posted the footprints of three aerial photos of Alexandra. I have now purchased these photos for $110 and received them today. The yard at Alexandra was comparable with Clyde or Cromwell in view of the type of facilities that were needed in order to service the commercial requirements of the local…
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ProjectDev: Ensuring correct distances on maps
When it comes to rail maps, we have things like stations that have distances associated with them, and marking the correct distances is a pretty important facet of designing maps. When the Quail Atlas came out in the third and fourth editions, it was metricated from the first two editions which were produced in the…
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Main North Line [3]: Clarence
I’m going to go a bit out of sequence here and put Clarence into the mix while also talking about some other things. I had to reinstall the computer that I do the maps on (it was updated to Xubuntu 17.10 which is actually a beta version), this let me update Qgis 2.99 to the…
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Otago Central Railway [31E]: Article Part 1 / Alexandra aerial photos
Well as you can see it has been a couple of weeks since posting, I have been busy talking to people and looking at a few things. I am seriously having a look at whether to get some more aerial photos to update the knowledge I have of Alexandra yard, but this will just be…
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Publications: Getting the project published and winding it up
As some of my friends know I have of late been looking at bringing this project to a conclusion because I hardly ever get things finished in my life and I really do want to finish this one and put all of it out there for the community as so many of you in this…
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About This Blog
This blog is about the NZ Rail Maps project. The aim of the project is to draw high quality large scale maps of every public railway line in New Zealand, incorporating such detail as route alignments, realignments and deviations, stations, yards, bridges and tunnels etc. The coverage of the project includes all currently open lines…
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Publishing decisions
The decisions which have been reached for publication are: I have a Flickr site established at www.flickr.com/nzrailmaps where the individual maps are released in albums. All maps will be placed here and can easily be viewed online. On mobile devices the Flickr apps make it very easy to flick through the maps. I have just…
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Otago Central Railway [14]: Finalising the Cromwell Gorge
So I have been taking a look at the Cromwell Gorge aerial data again after discovering my maps didn’t line up with the 0.4 metre aerial photos from LINZ. Well it turns out that I completely misaligned the aerials when I originally checked them against the original maps. In fact it was done very quickly…