Category: Project Development
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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…
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Otago Central Railway [8]: Waipiata-Ranfurly
Whilst progress has slowed a lot lately I am still working on the maps as time allows. I have discovered that aerial photography at 0.4 metres resolution is available for the entire line (there is higher resolution coverage available for a few areas close to Dunedin as well). This is very material to what I…
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Project Update: Otago Central Railway [1]
Well over the break work first began on updating the MSL from Palmerston to Dunedin and after getting as far as Oamaru work on that has stopped for the time being to focus on the Otago Central Railway. This has been intensified over the last week looking at all areas of the line but naturally…
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MSL Waitaki-Palmerston [1]
Well back onto another MSL series. Right now the MSL is not fully detailed between Christchurch and Dunedin. There is about a 60 km gap between Palmerston and Waitaki that is not fully detailed. I have decided to fully detail this section and probably after that, from Dunedin to Invercargill, while waiting for a response…
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Project update
Well since I wrote in my last post about rearranging my two Flickr accounts, I have been busy – I went away to Dunedin for a few days over Christmas – but I have now completed a monumental task of downloading almost 200 individual albums from the enzedrail Flickr albums and uploading them to the…
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Best way to share maps online
As this project evolves, there will be two main ways that maps will be published: As volumes online (CreateSpace) As individual maps Currently the individual maps are stored on Flickr as it appears to have the best system for displaying the images that make up the maps. I have two Flickr accounts, one for rail…
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NZ Rail Maps From Here
As most will be aware this blog has not had a post in about 2 months, and in fact I have not done any mapping activity in that time. For the most part I have needed some time to look at where this project is going, and how it fits in with other new interests…