Category: Project Development
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Project Diary 2019-06-22A
A quick follow up to the previous post. The key question for many reading this blog is “Does the Christchurch Transport Blog project subtract from the NZ Rail Maps project time commitment”? The simple and perhaps slightly regrettable answer to this question is “Yes”. This is key to understanding the recent slowdown in progress on…
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Project Development Report [2019J]
Currently I am in the position of reviewing the earlier PDRs of this year and as it is now the middle of the year, considering the best way of advancing the project for the rest of 2019. At the moment there is somewhat of a perception of low productivity more recently, and of having too…
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Project Diary 2019-06-02
In the past week there have been two main areas of work in this project. The first area is the Christchurch City maps referred to in a previous diary entry. It has been decided to combine existing maps of the city created for non-rail purposes with the existing rail maps data drawn for the city,…
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Project Diary 2019-05-17
We try to post at least once a week depending on what we are doing in this project. Most of the posts are about specific volumes or regions we are working on. Other times there will be a progress report for the whole project like there was last week. This week it will just be…
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Project Development Report [2019I]
This week we have continued working on downloading Linz base imagery and Retrolens historical imagery for the entire MSL corridor. We currently have the base imagery down to about Tumai (just south of Moeraki) and Retrolens down to Pareora, and progress has been a little slow this week, because we took some time on the…
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MSL Timaru-Glenavy [0A]: Intro 1
For our series of articles on the Main South Line we will break the corridor up into sections and these sections are chosen mostly on prominent stations but also in this case a geographic boundary. Glenavy is on the north bank of the Waitaki river which is the historical boundary between the provinces of Otago…
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Otago Central Railway [47J]: Current delay in OCR maps
The current effort on NZ Rail Maps to map the Otago Central Line started in November of 2017 – about 18 months ago. It was at that time with the first of the posts in series 47 that we started the widespread use of the LINZ background imagery and bringing in historical imagery with the…
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MSL Rolleston-Timaru [0A]: Intro 1
With this particular article I am making it clear I am working towards Volume 11 as a major effort to get something that is actually going to be completed as a volume as soon as possible. This will not be a continuous effort throughout the year but it will be a major focus for the…
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MSL Lyttelton-Rolleston [0B]: Christchurch-Hornby Intro
Following on from recent efforts to speed up mosaic production, due to having discovered the best way to combine multiple stations or a continuous length of corridor into one Gimp project, I have started doing this with the MSL around Christchurch. Yesterday and part of today has been spent combining several smaller projects into a…
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Project Development Report [2019G]
In the last couple of weeks I drew maps of Sockburn. I haven’t got around to blogging that, instead I just posted the album of maps on the group and another group. A lot of maps production in some areas is more than drawing maps, it is software upgrades and other steps and dealing with…