New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Volume 0

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17A: Proposed Work Schedule To End of 2024

    After consideration the work schedule for the maps project from date to the end of next year is proposed as follows. The plan is to complete up to four volumes which are already well in hand and therefore only need a relatively small amount of work to complete. So all of these are in the…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-10-17: NIMT, ECMT, Midland Line, Project Files

    Since the last update more work has been done in Volumes 2 and 4, specifically sections of the North Island Main Trunk which are in both these volumes, and Volume 3, specifically the Taneatua Branch. Work is now returning to Volume 7 to progress the release of the complete Midland Line section with all branches…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-09-13: North Island Main Trunk, Midland Line, Webmaps

    In the past week or so, the main work on New Zealand Rail Maps has been focused in the area of the North Island Main Trunk railway. With the receipt of a fresh batch of aerial images believed to originate from a New Zealand Railways Corporation’s official corridor aerial survey of the central NIMT, dated…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-09-05: Main South Line, North Island Main Trunk, Webmaps

    Since the last update report, random work has been done on sections of the Main South Line (specifically Timaru Station Yard) and North Island Main Trunk (Ohakune-Horopito, Raetihi Branch and Marton, with a look as well at some of the stuff previously done for Mangaweka-Utiku). The focus on what is now being shared with Facebook…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-13A: Formats, Views, Webmaps

    So a little bit of detail got left out of the last report, this one is a supplementary. The work that is important at the moment that isn’t tied specifically to the Midland Line is in two areas: So these areas are all important to the ongoing maps project work and it has been determined…

  • NZRM Field Testing 2023-08-05: Volumes vs MapBooks

    UPDATE: It has now been decided for various reasons that MapBooks will stick at diagrams only. Full aerial coverage will continue to be available in the existing Volumes and also an A4-based current aerial format that is produced alongside the MapBook pages that users can print out themselves. Field testing is where the project’s productions…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-05: Midland Line

    Mapping work has continued with a few new pieces being worked on, particularly in mapping the MRC Co proposed switchback line over Arthurs Pass. These maps are available now on the Volume 7 page and their content has been worked into an update of the main line maps between Arthurs Pass and Otira. This update…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-07-07: Midland Line

    This week, progress in NZRM maps has been slow for a variety of reasons. One of these reasons has been putting time aside to write a report about NZRM for the NZ Cartographic Society’s quadrennial report to the International Cartographic Cartographic Association which will be presented at ICCA’s conference next month. The report submitted for…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-30: Midland Line, Volume Reorganisation

    This week the main work done in the Project has been in the Midland Line. The mosaic of Greymouth in 1945 was completed and has been used in mapping. It is fair to say the planned release of Volume 9 is a bit behind schedule. For reasons explained below, the release of what has been…

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-06-23: Midland Line, Wairarapa Line, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, North Island Main Trunk

    This week on New Zealand Rail Maps the overwhelming focus has been on the migration of the project’s websites to a new hosting platform. This is now fully in operation both for this blog and for the webmaps. The new hosting solution is provided in New Zealand, rather than in California, and should probably result…