Category: Volume 0
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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…
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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…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-23
Good morning. As noted last week, the update for this week is the content of Volume 10, which covers the Main North Line and ensures these maps are correct for alignment and placement of location markers and infrastructure. The updates are being generated at present and will be uploaded on the website this afternoon. Last…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-18
Good morning. This week’s update is two updates combined, which accounts for it being later than usual. The reason for combining two updates is to allow the rest of this week to be focused on another part of the project whilst continuing to maintain the desired schedule of webmaps generation. As of today the webmaps…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-08
Good evening. This week’s update has been slightly delayed by an upload issue which took a day to resolve, this means the update is being sent now. This week the main update is for the NIMT section of the webmaps, which has had another 200 km added, taking the length covered from Palmerston North to…
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NZRM Update 2021-02-01
Welcome to the first update for February. Looking back, the first month of Webmaps has been a busy month with coverage gradually being increased. The webmaps now cover just over 500 km of the national network, and this is being steadily increased alongside other project work as time allows. Today’s update takes the NIMT coverage…
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NZRM Update 2021-01-24
Good morning. This week’s update to NZ Rail Maps consists of the following: Added NIMT as far as Waikanae to Webmaps Added Johnsonville Branch and Johnsonville-Tawa Section to Webmaps Created the Volumes subsite (accessible using the Volumes link on the menu) to hold static maps. This area will include image galleries, PDFs and GPX files.…
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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…