Category: Project Development
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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…
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Railmaps of Dunedin
Well I have been pretty quiet for the past week and that will be the pattern from here on in with occasional updates as time permits. Although in this case a lot of that is because of changing computers around as well. It was decided to get more use out of the secondary PC seeing…
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Global Contributions and Sources
The global contribution and source list has been published here. It will be updated as necessary. http://nzrailmaps.blogspot.co.nz/p/global-reference-list.html
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Global source list
Currently the blog is getting a global source and reference list assembled. This page which will be published sometime later this week, will acknowledge all of the source contributions made to this project.
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Recording mileposts
Milepost recording on NZ Rail Maps has been going for some months, maybe a year and a half, and the positions come from the Kiwirail Alcam data. Mileposts have been recorded up until now as features, with the distance recorded in the caption field. It has now been decided to store them as stations. Six…