Category: Project Development

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report [2021C]

    Good day and welcome to our third project development report for 2021. As the text below documents, project progress is being made on the Main North Line maps. The overall project since completing the first stage of the webmaps last month has shifted towards completing maps in various areas so that the webmaps can be…

  • Fairlie Branch Stations: NZRM Stations Site Plan

    As you would have seen from yesterday’s post, some information on stations of the Fairlie Branch Line was posted as a proposed series of articles. It is time consuming to produce articles such as these, the main reason why they stopped coming out a while ago, and given that a separate Stations site is being…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report [2021B]

    Here is our second project development report for the NZ Rail Maps project for 2021. At the beginning of this year, after making the decision to launch our own web site, NZ Rail Maps was set up on the current hosting platform as three distinct sites, all of which are subdomains. This blog is hosted…

  • NZRM Update 2021-05-01: Webmaps Stage 1 Completed

    Good morning. Today, with the release of the final update, NZ Rail Maps Webmaps Stage 1 is now complete. This is an important achievement and milestone for the NZ Rail Maps project; it represents the first time that a complete set of maps for the whole country has been available from the project. The criteria…

  • NZRM Update This Week

    This week, Stage 1 of the NZ Rail Maps Web Maps will be completed. At the time of publishing this blog, Volume 11 has been completed and is being checked for completeness, whilst Volumes 7 and 8 are currently being added to the webmaps and will be completed over the next day or two. Apart…

  • NZRM Update 2021-04-06

    Good evening. This week’s update to the NZ Rail Maps webmaps site completes the addition of content for Volume 12. Volume 12 is essentially an overflow volume from Volume 11 (Main South Line) and includes all branch lines south of Dunedin. It was proposed originally this update would include more content but this week the…

  • NZRM Update 2021-03-17

    Good morning. This week’s update to NZ Rail Maps adds in Volume 12 in the South Island as well as some missed detail in the North Island. In addition some extra stations have been added into the default webmap view that is initially loaded in a browser (zoom level 9). Volume 12 is one of…

  • NZRM Update 2021-03-09

    Good evening. As noted on the project’s Facebook page, this week’s update will focus on completing coverage of the webmaps for the North Island, rather than adding all volumes in the South Island as was originally proposed in this timeframe. Last week’s update took a lot more work than planned, partly because of extra work…

  • NZRM Update 2021-03-04

    Good afternoon and welcome to this week’s NZ Rail Maps Project update. As it says on the Facebook page this week’s update is a few days later than planned, normally updates come out on Mondays. The reason is that it was decided last week the update milestone would be for completing all trunk corridors in…

  • NZRM Field Testing 2021-02-24

    In the New Zealand Rail Maps project, from time to time field testing is performed of various produced forms of the maps and this has led to some valuable improvements being made into aspects of the project. An example is in 2018, field testing was done with the offline version of the Volume 5 maps…