Category: Aerial Photography

  • NZRM Progress Report 2023-11-25: Volume 6

    Work on maps recently has been focused on Volume 6. In the 1960s the NIMT between Porirua and Plimmerton was doubled, electrified and realigned. Whilst mapping has been done on this section before, it needed to be redone to make it easier to overlap the mosaics produced from Wellington to Porirua which are in a…

  • New Aerial Photos For Palmerston North

    NZRM has received a supply of historical aerial maps of Palmerston North from Linz and is currently adding them to Volume 2 of NZ Rail Maps. Those which have arrived in the past week are as follows: At this time NZRM is waiting to receive a number of additional aerial surveys from 1941, 1942, 1945…

  • New “Gabrielle” Aerial Photography Released from Linz

    Linz is currently releasing new aerial photography covering disaster hit areas of the North Island. So far there are two layers available: NZRM would hope to see more at a better resolution, however all of the above will be made use of to the greatest extent possible especially the higher resolution content around Napier. This…

  • New Zealand Rail Maps Project Development Report – June 2022

    During June, the rail maps project slowed down somewhat as resources were put into creating a series of historical maps for Christchurch City for the purposes of other allied blogs, including Transport Safety Blog and Christchurch Transport Blog. This work is ongoing at the time of writing this, but in the last week of the…

  • Research Notes: Retrolens.nz Site

    If you have an interest in old aerial photos of New Zealand, you’ve probably come across the Retrolens.nz site. This site houses a large collection of the bulk of the Crown Aerial Film Archive, which holds around 550,000 aerials flown between 1936 and 2008. The originals are held by Land Information New Zealand (Linz) which…

  • Wairarapa Line [0CC]: Volume 6 Progress Update 29

    Good evening. Work is continuing at a steady pace on Volume 6 with the alignment of our maps to the current base imagery reaching down to the 119 km peg just south of Eketahuna at present. This has slowed a little due to some work on another volume but is still continuing and we expect…

  • Wairarapa Line [0R]: Volume 6 Progress Update 18

    Good day to our readers. This update is quite soon after the last one but that one was so delayed waiting for us to put in maps of Silverstream that we just sent it out incomplete. We do now have these maps and some examples are below. A key focus for this update has been…

  • Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0Q]: Volume 5 Progress Update 17

    After our last post about extra work being discovered as we got into more depth of working on lines in the Gisborne area, that trend has continued today. Whilst in the course of tidying up all the aerial photography around the Gisborne area and labelling many of the sidings off the main line, we discovered…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020B]

    This report as always with these reports is a general overview of the project as a whole across all volumes. Our earlier report 2020A was written on the first day of the year and outlined our expected programme for map development across the whole project this year. At present with the development of the maps…

  • Otago Central Railway [64A]: Middlemarch-Ranfurly 1 / OCR Maps From Here

    This isn’t a new series as such but it is about adding to the work already done in this sector of mapping the OCR. Yesterday I had a look for new Retrolens aerial photo content for the stations in the Ida Valley area and have obtained a significant amount from recent RL additions. I then…