Category: Project Development
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New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report [2021A]
Good evening and here is our first global project development report for 2021. These reports are an overview/summary of general development of the NZ Rail Maps project and are typically produced up to 20 times annually. The project as a whole has taken an interesting turn in the latter half of 2020 with the ability…
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NZRM Web Maps Update 2021-01-17
Good morning. This week’s update to the site adds new content as well as some client changes. A separate page from the main webmaps site shows the special set of aerial photos taken of the South Island East Coast following the 2016 Rotherham Earthquake. This is at a resolution of 0.2 metres per pixel and…
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NZRM Web Maps Update 2021-01-09
Good morning. As noted the NZRM Webmaps launched at 1 January and this website appears to be working successfully as a new step forward in making the maps more widely available and convenient to use. The site works best with recent browsers, so it is probably not going to be all that usable for people…
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NZ Rail Maps Web Maps Site Now Live
Good morning and welcome to 2021. The New Zealand Rail Maps Live Webmaps site is now operational. The site as it has been developed to date provides webmaps for just the section of the Main South Line, in Christchurch, that is located between the 10 km and 21 km pegs (Christchurch to Islington). This is…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020O]: New Site Under Development
Good evening. The new NZ Rail Maps site is currently taking shape ahead of its planned launch date of 1 January 2021. At this stage the live maps which are available at that point will include a subset of the Greater Christchurch area. The minimum area available will be the Main South Line between Christchurch…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020N]: New Site Live, Webmaps Available 1 January 2021
The new NZ Rail Maps website is now operational. It looks just like the old one except that there are no webmaps available yet. These however are being created over the next week or two and will be available by 1 January 2021 as mentioned in the last blog post. The webmaps that are available…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020M]: New Web Maps Site To Go Live 1 January 2021
Good morning. As can be seen, this is only the second update for December so far as the project management has been very busy as is common for this type of year. A considerable part of this has been tied up with migrating the affiliated converser.nz website to a new web hosting platform. This work…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [5]
Good afternoon and here is this week’s update on the webmap development preview for Greater Christchurch. Since our last post a lot more work has been completed on the Main South Line section and accordingly it is in fact complete except for any errors that are discovered and need to be resolved. Work has also…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [4]
Good evening. Since the last post nearly 2 weeks ago work has focused on completion of the aerial mosaics, and with the ongoing work taking a lot of effort, these mosaics are still a wee way off completion. The current rate of progress is: From Heathcote to Addington and from Hornby to Templeton on MSL…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [3]
This post is a series on the development of a new web maps preview for the Greater Christchurch area. The creation of this preview is currently intended to be used to promote the utility of the maps for the Greater Christchurch area, to give access to historical and current day information about the Greater Christchurch,…