Category: Palmerston North Gisborne Line
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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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Unpalatable Truth: Shipping More Efficient Than Rail
On July 30, 2020, The Australian newspaper published an article lamenting the rundown of the rail freight network over there, due to intense competition from road and sea haulage. Whilst road transport of freight is not cost competitive in large quantities and long distances, it works well when only a small volume is to be…
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Wairoa to Gisborne Rail Line: Can the line be re-opened economically?
The ongoing saga of the Gisborne Line has occupied many column centimetres in Gisborne and elsewhere over a lengthy period. The problem is that the Gisborne Line, particularly in the section over the Whareratas near Gisborne, has been very difficult and extremely expensive to maintain. The reopening of the line has been the subject of…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020C]
So a few days ago we completed Volume 5 of NZ Rail Maps. This is not the first time we have completed a volume in any format, but it is the first volume completed in the new online format. As previously noted, the maps in this photographic format are specifically designed to be used on…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0Z]: Volume 5 Progress Update 26
So we delayed this until release time. We are pleased to announce that Volume 5 has released. As the legendary Steve Jobs once said, “Real Artists Ship”. Being able to release a fully completed volume is a big milestone for this project in its current form. Although we have previously produced some printed volumes of…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0Y]: Volume 5 Progress Update 25
Welcome to another PNGL Volume 5 progress update. Hopefully the next one will tell you the volume has been published. The main progress that has been done since last time is we have added aerial photo generations to the Napier maps. So we have historical aerial mosaic tiles for 1951, 1973, 1983 and 1996. We…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0X]: Volume 5 Progress Update 24
Welcome to the Volume 5 Progress Update 24. We are moving on steadily with our plan to publish the full volume online not later than tomorrow, Saturday 8 February, 2019 and things are working to schedule. The last couple of days have been spent expanding the historical aerial coverage of Napier to what can be…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0W]: Volume 5 Progress Update 23
Yesterday we wrote about how important it was to stay on track and meet a deadline. Today we are tossing up how much flexibility we can have to meet a deadline and still be able to squeeze some more content into the maps before they are published. Recently the map format was changed so that…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0V]: Volume 5 Progress Update 22
So here is the latest progress report on completing Volume 5, Palmerston North Gisborne Line, of NZ Rail Maps. When we started to work on this late last year we set a deadline for completion which we thought would be the end of January. As we can see this is the first week of February…
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Palmerston North Gisborne Line [0U]: Volume 5 Progress Update 21
Today’s big achievement has been to solve a software reliability issue which had caused the completion work to grind to nearly a halt and resulted in the work of creating the Ngatapa and Matawai-Wairata map sets to be stalled for a few days. We achieved this by using a virtual machine to install an older…