Category: Volume 0
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Project Diary 2019-05-17
We try to post at least once a week depending on what we are doing in this project. Most of the posts are about specific volumes or regions we are working on. Other times there will be a progress report for the whole project like there was last week. This week it will just be…
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Project Development Report [2019I]
This week we have continued working on downloading Linz base imagery and Retrolens historical imagery for the entire MSL corridor. We currently have the base imagery down to about Tumai (just south of Moeraki) and Retrolens down to Pareora, and progress has been a little slow this week, because we took some time on the…
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MSL Timaru-Glenavy [0A]: Intro 1
For our series of articles on the Main South Line we will break the corridor up into sections and these sections are chosen mostly on prominent stations but also in this case a geographic boundary. Glenavy is on the north bank of the Waitaki river which is the historical boundary between the provinces of Otago…
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Otago Central Railway [47J]: Current delay in OCR maps
The current effort on NZ Rail Maps to map the Otago Central Line started in November of 2017 – about 18 months ago. It was at that time with the first of the posts in series 47 that we started the widespread use of the LINZ background imagery and bringing in historical imagery with the…
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MSL Rolleston-Timaru [0A]: Intro 1
With this particular article I am making it clear I am working towards Volume 11 as a major effort to get something that is actually going to be completed as a volume as soon as possible. This will not be a continuous effort throughout the year but it will be a major focus for the…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [0B]: Christchurch-Hornby Intro
Following on from recent efforts to speed up mosaic production, due to having discovered the best way to combine multiple stations or a continuous length of corridor into one Gimp project, I have started doing this with the MSL around Christchurch. Yesterday and part of today has been spent combining several smaller projects into a…
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Project Development Report [2019G]
In the last couple of weeks I drew maps of Sockburn. I haven’t got around to blogging that, instead I just posted the album of maps on the group and another group. A lot of maps production in some areas is more than drawing maps, it is software upgrades and other steps and dealing with…
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Project Development Report [2019F]
Since last time there has been some progress on Volume 1 but not as much as I had expected. There have been delays for two main reasons, both of them related to the migration to version 3.6 of Qgis. These are simply migrating computers to a new version of Debian, and then discovering it caused…
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Project Development Report [2019E] & North Auckland Line [0C]: Progress Report 3
As a result of a lot of hard work I now have practically all of the base aerial photography for Northland which lets me complete the full set of maps for Volume 1. However it looks like I am a bit behind schedule on the timeframe for all 12 volumes for this year and so…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Direction/ Development Proposals [2019D]
This is a more in depth look at what we hope to see developed in the Project in 2019. All of Volumes 1-12 will be developed to a Basic level. In addition the following content is planned to be developed to a Comprehensive level: Volume 1: Selected stations in the Far North. Volume 2: Auckland…