Russ, Thanks, that is very helpful, especially the part about the "shared way"
Mike On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Russell Deffner <russell.deff...@hotosm.org > wrote: > 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 > > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) > > http://hotosm.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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