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Month: February 2021

  • Shoddy electrical standards cause accidents and fires

    There’s hardly a month that goes past when FENZ is not announcing that someone’s house, school or other premises has been burned down by a faulty electrical power board. This never needed to have happened, because when these devices first started to become widely available in NZ, back in my childhood, they were almost invariably…

  • Social Housing Providers Must Protect Tenants From Harrassment

    In recent weeks local Christchurch print media have reported a number of cases of tenants in social housing complexes being intimidated by other tenants. Whilst the provision of social housing does involve provision for tenants who may have high and complex needs, there are grounds for concern that social housing is increasingly seen as a…

  • NZ Rail Maps: Spatialite vs Geopackage

    In the NZ Rail Maps project, I have preferred in recent years to replace shapefiles with databased formats. When using file based dbms (vs client-server) SQlite stands out as a viable alternative that is extremely well supported with an impeccable reputation. There are a number of SQlite based formats of data for GIS layers. Geopackage…

  • Reflection

    I have decided to import all the old posts from Blogger (over 700) so they now appear with the correct dates herein, as well as their categories being added to a now-somewhat-long list. This blog is now 14 years old although previously known as Enzed Tech. It’s interesting to take a look back to the…

  • Samsung Galaxy A12

    Well it’s time to get some posting underway for 2021 (other than rail maps) so here is a brief run down of a recent acquisition, a Samsung Galaxy A12 phone. This model was released late last year so there is relatively little information available for it on a lot of sites. The example mentioned here…