New Zealand Rail Maps

Category: Project Development

  • North Auckland Line [0R]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 28, 2020

    This past week we achieved more than expected with the maps, but only advanced progress over a total of around 5 km of the route – from Mt Albert to New Lynn. The latter has been the focus of considerable research in itself. This has involved getting hold of 2007 and 2009 historical imagery of…

  • North Auckland Line [0Q]: Weekly Progress Report – Week 27, 2020

    Good evening. Last week we changed our planned schedule for map production and as a result, we have completed only a few kilometres of the NAL rail corridor, from Mt Eden to near Mt Albert. The reason for this is that other work has taken priority. We have determined that another pause of about a…

  • North Auckland Line [0N]: Volume 1 Progress Update 14

    Good evening. After a lot of preparation, work has finally begun today on the production of the maps for the Volume 1 update. This week has been quite a slow one for maps production and is probably behind schedule yet again, but there has been a lot going on behind the scenes in this project…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020G]: General Considerations

    Good evening. In our last project development report we wrote about web hosting options, and since writing these have been more or less confirmed in the establishment of a SmugMug site to host the map content produced by the Project. This is, however, a commercial site that involves a financial cost, and this requires the…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020G]: New Milestones

    Good evening. Today is a big day in the NZ Rail Maps project. We’re launching our website, we’re publishing Volume 6 of NZ Rail Maps for the Wairarapa Line, and we’re starting to write our blog posts directly on this WordPress site. After looking at some ideas of how we could host a website, we…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020F]: Website Hosting Options [1]

    Good morning. Here is our sixth project development report for 2020. We spent the last day looking at possible web hosting options for NZ Rail Maps This meaning that there would be a paid site instead of wholly free ones, although some free hosted content is likely to remain. There are a number of possible…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020F]

    In our last update we mentioned that we were considering relaxing the development schedule and allowing two years to complete the maps as expected. The key reason for this is that the level we are currently developing maps to will need longer than the current year to achieve, with the Intermediate level that we are…

  • Wairarapa Line [0000]: Volume 6 Research Article Series Numbering

    The next article will be one of our research articles into the Wairarapa Line. We will do this one as a break from straight progress updates. We have looked back on previous articles and there was a series numbered from 1 to 9. After that there was the second of the Volume 6 Progress Updates…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020E]

    Here is our fifth project development report for 2020. These reports give a general overview of the whole maps project for the year 2020. As has been outlined in previous posts in this series as well as general blog posts, we started this year on the assumption it might be possible to cover the entire…

  • NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020D]

    So here is our latest update on the overall NZ Rail Maps project. As we made clear earlier this year, we are working on completing all 12 volumes in 2020. That is an aspirational goal and for various reasons it’s quite possible that goal won’t be met. However it is worthwhile making a serious attempt…