Category: NZ Tekonverse -> NZ Rail Maps Technical
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NZ Rail Maps: Using Gimp To Georeference Retrolens Aerial Photos [3]: Getting Imagery Into Gimp
So let’s get this rolling. First thing I need is to download the layers from Linz Data Service. Which in this case is at the following URL: https://data.linz.govt.nz/layer/53399-northland-01m-urban-aerial-photos-2014-2015/ The layer is called Northland 0.1m Urban Aerial Photos (2014-2015) and covers the stations of Whangarei, Portland and Kamo. It also covers the port area of Whangarei,…
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NZ Rail Maps: Using Gimp To Georeference Retrolens Aerial Photos [2]: Preliminary Considerations
So I aim to write one post every day about this topic (this post was supposed to be finished last evening but has stretched through until this morning) until all the parts are completed, there are probably three or four parts. This is easy because I am doing georeferencing at the moment on a particular…
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NZ Rail Maps: Using Gimp To Georeference Retrolens Aerial Photos [1]: Introduction
OK so here is another post in the NZ Rail Maps category and this post will explain how I carry out the georeferencing of the historical Retrolens aerial photos to produce the maps for the NZ Rail Maps project. This is a very rewarding aspect of the project but it does take a lot of…
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New “Readjust” feature in Gimp Unified Transform (NZRM Aerial Mosaics)
Unified Transform is a very useful capability in Gimp since about 2.10 that combines a number of transformation tools together, such as Scale, Rotate and Shear. I have used this tool extensively when creating aerial map mosaics for the NZ Rail Maps project. To create an aerial map mosaic, I start with downloading the current…
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NZ Rail Maps Technical Review 2020-04-18
So we are now at Qgis version 3.10.4 for the NZ Rail Maps map production task. Back a way we had a lot of trouble with Qgis with WMTS layers which were unusable at that time. Since then however we haven’t been able to replicate the problem but we suspect that their code has bugs…