Hi Russ, Here is some news about sugar mills in Lautoka, Rarawai (Ba) and Penang (Rakiraki): http://www.fbc.com.fj/fiji/38392/fsc-focuses-on-mill-repairs
Labasa is not mentioned, maybe because it was not affected, or not as much. Best, Jean-Guilhem Le 13/03/2016 20:51, Russell Deffner a écrit : > > Hello everyone, > > > > A little off-topic on a Sunday Mapternoon :) > > > > I’ve been asked a few times; and was curious myself, but any local > knowledge folks – please correct me if I’m wrong. However, it does > appear that the Labasa Cane Train is operating, at least at the time > of the imagery. If you look at the Labasa Sugar Mill (just on the > east edge of town), you can actually see the sugar cane wagons. I > also think I found a caboose loaded up off to the northeast. It’s > really interesting because this is (I think – not an RR expert – at > all) the ‘narrowest of all gauges’ when it comes to locomotives, which > makes it incredibly hard to see in imagery. > > > > Anyway, after looking at the pictures here: > http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Fiji I was totally looking > at those full wagons on the tracks thinking – what the heck is that – > well, now you know :) > > > > On a mapping tip note – there are many sections where the train track > is ‘in the road’/shared way – in that case, just tag the segment with > both highway=* and railway=narrow_gauge > > > > Happy Mapping! > > =Russ > > > > Russell Deffner > > russell.deff...@hotosm.org <mailto:russell.deff...@hotosm.org> > > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) > > http://hotosm.org <http://hotosm.org/>__ > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot -- "On ne m’ôtera pas de l’idée que, pendant la dernière guerre mondiale, de nombreux juifs ont eu une attitude carrément hostile à l’égard du régime nazi." Pierre Desproges "I won't be deprived of the idea that, during the last world war, many Jews had a downright hostile attitude toward the Nazi regime."
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