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Re:Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists by Rebelgecko on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:10PM (#22938833)
I'd have to toss my bike over a barbed wire fence, or maybe cut the lock. The service road winds between a bunch of natural gas storage tanks so I don't think they'd willingly let me in. There's a "≠" symbol where the service road is fenced off, which I assume means impassible but "≠" isn't on the map legend so I'm not sure. When I hit the cycle layer, the ≠ symbol goes away
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Re:Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists by 43920 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:24PM (#22939487)
≠ represents a gate [1], which the routing engine probably assumes you can go through; if it's not possible to open the gate, it should have an access=private tag added to it to indicate that it's not passable.

If you click on the mouse cursor button on the right and then click on the symbol, it will show you the details for that object.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dgate

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