Category: Project Development
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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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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…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2020A]: Work Programme For 2020
Welcome to the new year of 2020. This article is really just a summary of previous recent posts setting out our development priorities for the NZ Rail Maps project for 2020. As noted in those posts, it is mainly a rehash of the 2019 vision, which was largely not completed as planned, but is now…
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Map Development Levels [3]: Comprehensive Level
Yesterday we posted about the Basic and Intermediate levels of the maps of the NZ Rail Maps project. Today we are going to have an in depth look at the Comprehensive level of the maps. The main additional level of information added at Comprehensive level is georeferenced historical maps. This requires that the aerial photography…
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Map Development Levels [2]: Intermediate Level
In the last post we described the process of creating the maps to a Basic level. This post describes the second level of maps, the Intermediate level. The main difference between Basic and Intermediate level is that a printable PDF file is produced for each map volume. For a printed format, like a book, the…
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Map Development Levels [1]: Basic Level
At the beginning of this year we defined a vision for 2019 and we also talked about three levels of map development. Although the 2019 vision was not followed for the most part, it is being picked up and pursued much more firmly for 2020. Inherent in that is that the maps will be developed…
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NZ Rail Maps Project Development Report [2019L]
After reviewing progress for the year so far, the goals that were set back in January and the progress achieved in them, the following decisions have been reached: The maps for Greater Christchurch to be completed as intended, with multiple map generations, for four sections of line – Christchurch to Lyttelton, Christchurch to Lincoln, Christchurch…
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Project Diary 2019-09-01: Comment on our relationship with the rest of the NZ rail heritage community
As many of you know, we have not always enjoyed good productive relationships with the rest of the NZ rail community which is partly why this project has its own separate Facebook presence and our involvement of various hobbyist groups has waxed and waned over the years. Ongoing politics relating to this project and to…
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Project Development Report [2019K]
This brief report is to update progress for 2019 so far as the year is now more than half over. At the start of this year work was happening on the MNPL line which continued until the end of January and then work was switched onto the Main North Line, followed by the Kinleith Branch,…