Category: Project Development
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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…
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Current Projects on NZ Rail Maps
During the current holiday period I am working on a lot of cleanup projects and other activities. Some of these include: Reorganising and restructuring several projects, particularly Northland-Auckland and Canterbury-Westland, that have data in the old single purpose layer structures. Adding information to a number of projects, especially Canterbury-Westland and Palmerston North Gisborne Line. New…
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Welcome to 2016
This blog has been slightly redesigned and in particular the stuff at the bottom each page has been improved. Amongst other things you will find A set of links to all the sites that this project uses. The explanation of these is as follows – Individual map collection – Flickr slides of maps that have…
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NZ Rail Maps 2015 Review
It seems like a good time to review what progress has been made with this project in 2015 so here we are. The community of the NZ Rail Maps project changed during the year with a shift to a secret Facebook group to work with the small community of interest that is helping me to…
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Project storage moving to Google
Since the beginning of this project I have used online storage for all of the project files and also published PDFs. Skydrive / OneDrive was used at the beginning because Microsoft initially gave out 25 GB of space way back about five years ago. They then cut this back to 7 GB for new accounts,…
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Change in NZ Rail Maps Project
Well this has been on the cards for the last few months. At the beginning of this year as was publicised on this blog, the site was put into archive format, with the announcement there would be no new updates posted. This was as a result of a decision that I would like to produce…
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Remnants of the old East Coast Main Trunk Railway
As Google Earth coverage keeps getting better, we keep discovering more about the geography of New Zealand, with one of my interests being former railway lines. There are still some areas of the North Island that use old Landsat low res coverage, I hope they will get some Cnes/Spot coverage soon. In a former life…