Recent content by geophil

What I have in mind is a notification add-on to Content Manager export and import/commit functions. I tried to explain it in the initial TNI thread: http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?128929-Trainz-Native-Interface&p=1494029#post1494029...

I have commented on this topic a few times in the past, occasionally with figures, but not with "hard evidence". Since it has come up again recently, I'll present a few pictures this time. The article illustrates that TransDEM routes and the Trainz assets Lat/Long Reader and its sibling Trig...

A concise history of Ordnance Survey and the topographic maps they produce was shown on BBC Four last week. I should have pointed this out much earlier but I missed it myself. However, it's still available on iPlayer for a few weeks. (Viewers outside the UK can try a proxy, like Hola or...

Until now, Australian Trainz routes were build either with 3 arc sec SRTM data or 1 arc sec ASTER GDEM. SRTM 3 arc sec is somewhat low on resolution, particularly in mountainous regions. ASTER, on the other hand, nominally has a higher resolution, but comes with a coarse surface. Hence, both are...

In case you missed any or all of the six episodes of the excellent documentary series "The Tube", broadcast recently on BBC 2 and HD, you can now catch up on YouTube, search phrase "BBC The Tube". Six fascinating hours behind the scenes of one of the biggest underground systems of the world you...

The railway network in Madagascar consists of two different parts. In the North the main line connects the capital Antananarivo (Tana) with the biggest port Toamasina/Tamatave (TCE, Tanatave Côte Est) with two branch lines to Antsirabe and Lake Alaotra, In the South we find the single line...