<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> Although a height difference between in and out might indicate a weir or<br>
> other obstruction may well indicate that a route is non-navigable? The<br>
> outflow from a dam may have the same name, but have no use as a through<br>
> route?<br>
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</span>This is more about the water flow than about being navigable by a ship.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>I assumed that when the wiki spoke about "routable" it was referring to the water flow rather than boat/ship/barge traffic. In any event, a routing engine for boats could use the presence of a dam or weir (combined with the absence of a lock) to deduce that ship navigation was not possible. </div></div><br></div></div>