Category: New Zealand Rail Maps
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New Zealand Rail Maps: 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 Read…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: 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 Read…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: 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 Read…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: NZRM Progress Report 2023-08-13: Midland Line
Since the field testing on August 5th and the subsequent report on map formats for future testing, no substantial work of any nature has been done on the maps. There has been a small change in the GPS files that are available for download from the Volume 7 page. The full set of GPS locations Read…
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New Zealand Rail Maps: 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 Read…