Canterbury Maps has aerial coverage of Springburn, Mount Somers, Cavendish and Anama at present. It is possible this could be added to at a later date as they keep expanding their coverage.  I have looked at the possibility of getting aerial scans of the remaining stations from Archives New Zealand, however I have had to…

I am currently setting up an order for 21 more aerial photos as follows: Survey 1452 of 1962 Run S. Photo 7 – this should give me the very end of the line at Cromwell which so far has eluded me. Run W, Photos 19-20 and  Run X, Photos 1-2: Alexandra Survey 5073 of 1977…

Well this blog has now been launched as being separate from NZ Rail Maps and I have copied across all of the content from Enzed Transport that is maps related. The final layout of this blog and various other settings have yet to be completed and may well change over the next few days. What…

This is the latest version of the map’s key. Notable recent additions deal with multiple main lines, and abandoned construction works. The North Auckland Line map document currently in production will be the first to use the new key. The Skydrive site is also having all the old KML files added to it. These are…

Continuing with some features of the line as shown in the first posting of this series. A lot of points of interest further from Belgrove were already shown in the Glenhope Kawatiri article, here is the rest. This map shows the section of the Buller Gorge from the end of the completed surveys (right), to…

I have pasted about half the maps so far into the document so progress is being made. Unfortunately when I saved this as a PDF, a further conversion stage has resulted in unacceptable additional style changes that are departing too far from where the map was originally. It is starting to look like, if I…

As referred to in other posts I am currently putting the map document together for the Nelson Section. This new format has several firsts. It is the first map document to have one table of stations and features together as they appear in sequence along the line. So major bridges and tunnels will appear all…

As noted from my Quail replacement series of posts, the image from Qgis Print Composer has to be cleaned up to be made into a useful printable format. One of the issues is that the Print composer’s SVG output, due to limitations of the SVG export tool they are using, goes outside the rectangle of…

In order to continue to investigate our options for producing Q5 from Qgis, it is necessary for me to find out what I can use Inkscape for. From the previous posts, you may recall I was looking at exporting map views to SVGs and then editing them to add additional captions in order to get…

Since I last wrote about this two days ago, the option of producing maps via SVGs has come into consideration, by way of discovering the print composer feature in Qgis. This would be a great way of working around some of the issues in producing maps similar to Q4 from Qgis. For example, as we…