Saturday, 31 March 2018

Main North Line [11J]: Addington 10

As of now here is what has been drawn excluding Plant Zone and the workshops. Apart from adding those areas, generationalising all the track (checking to see how much still exists today) is another task to be completed.

I have decided to draw all the yards from scratch (compared to the stuff I did in GE not that long ago) but won't be doing multiple generation aerial photos unlike the way I did it previously. If multiple aerial photos exist they will be used to help draw in extra tracks but there won't be multiple backgrounds the way they have been done in Otago Central and one or two other areas as putting them together takes a lot of work. So the MSL from Lyttelton to Templeton will all be done from scratch because the mosaics give me much more accurate placement of track if they are done properly, and therefore saves me from having to line up all the previously drawn track to the Linz aerial photos.






Friday, 30 March 2018

Main North Line [11I]: Addington 9

I have now refactored and re-rendered all the geojpegs for Addington and have started working on the maps. Along the way some issues have been found with the masking on the composite mosaics requiring some further refactoring and re-rendering. However this isn't serious enough to affect maps, it just affects the background when they are printed out, so with a second computer available for the editing it means I can work on mapping at the same time without slowing that down.

Working with two screens side by side to get the views of historic and current aerial imagery simultaneously.

Tuesday, 27 March 2018