Category: Project Development
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch [2]
Last time we talked about the process of developing a preview for Greater Christchurch and it was hoped we could have it ready in a few days. Now we are a week into this process and although good progress has been made on this task, it’s been necessary to juggle whether to spend time getting…
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Overlay Webmaps Development Preview – Greater Christchurch
Good afternoon. Here is this week’s update summary for the NZ Rail Maps Project. So far, in order to aid the development model for the new web site, we have created two different development previews: Volume 1 (North Auckland Line) and Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line). These have reflected several development levels proposed for the maps:…
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Wairarapa Line (Volume 6) Webmaps Preview
Good afternoon. In our last blog post we proposed that web maps for Volume 6 (Wairarapa Line), based on the previously published static images for Volume 6, would become available this week. We are pleased to announce that a preview for part of Volume 6, from Wellington to Waterloo in the Hutt Valley, is now…
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North Auckland Line [0Y]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 42, 2020
Good morning. Last week’s blog referred to samples of Southdown and suggested a method of providing access to specific levels of aerial photography for each station. This week, instead of other map work, time was taken to reflect on further options for displaying aerial photography, and even although another week has gone by with seemingly…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020L]: Welcome to the new NZ Rail Maps Web Site
If you’re reading this on Facebook or on our Groups.io project group then welcome to our new web site. NZRM Project is developing this site following a decision to migrate to a full web tile maps system for providing NZ Rail Maps content over the Internet. As Volume 1 of the entire maps project is…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020K]: Web Development Trial
The above is the home page you will see when you put the address http://live.blog.nzrailwebmaps.nz into your web browser. It is starting as a default WordPress site and as Project spends time customising it, will change in appearance to resemble this blog. As of today, Project has signed with GoDaddy NZ for 1 year for…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020J]: New Production Options
In Project’s last PDR, [2020I], published in August, the development of the nzrailmaps website that had been started at www.blog.nzrailwebmaps.nz was discussed. The site development discussed there is for a static website where the maps are manually generated from the GIS and then uploaded as images to a photo gallery type of site. Project chose…
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North Auckland Line [0W]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 39, 2020
Project recently has completed some mapping of Okaihau / Rangiahua sections, Dargaville / Kaihu sections and North Auckland Line main route. However due to other life priorities work has slowed during the past week and Project does not expect the present very slow progress to show much increase during the current week. Work has started…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020I]: Web Site Development – August 2020
As it is generally known, we have a web site at https://blog.nzrailwebmaps.nz. The website is in its early stages of development, and we have still to determine various parameters for it. We are, however, expecting to carry out the following content development options: Add volume galleries of the full set of maps for all of…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020H]: Development Schedule Latest Revision
Over time we have looked into different map development schedules. We first attempted about two years ago to prioritise producing a Basic version of all 12 volumes as a high priority to be completed within months. That however has been re-examined a few times. We have looked at different compromises between getting the maps finished…