Belfast not on the city list

Hello, I am new to city strides, I can see all of my run data and location routes however it says I have completed 0 streets even though the map shows otherwise.

When I try to search up my city Belfast, Northern Ireland it does not come up on the list of cities, is there any way of fixing this?

Many Thanks
Adam

Hmm, yeah, there’s not much of anything present in Northern Ireland.

It looks like admin level 6 has full coverage

but the area around Belfast is a mess of overlapping counties that I wouldn’t be able to do anything about (resulting in duplicate streets for people running there)

admin level 10 also seems to have full coverage

but that results in some pretty weird looking places


for example, Relation: ‪Town Parks‬ (‪4510490‬) | OpenStreetMap

:thinking:

Thank you James for looking into this, I appreciate it. Is there anything I could do to help this situation and make Belfast be listed as a city for me?

Many Thanks - Adam

:sweat_smile: it gets “better” … all of the admin level 6 places are historic - they were all disbanded in 1973 in favor of districts: Local government in Northern Ireland - Wikipedia
Of course, only two of these are present in OSM :confounded: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4183318 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/15812155

I seem to have these choices…

  1. Import the historic admin level 6, and nest Belfast into one of the two counties it’s in (probably County Antrim since that’s the most overlap)
  2. Import the admin level 10 places which would split Belfast up into these places (click Run in top left)
  3. Import places tagged as civil_parish which would split Belfast up into Shankill & Knockbreda
  4. Import only the historic Belfast and leave the rest of Northern Ireland unmapped

:sweat_smile:
Which option leaves you least mad?

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Thanks James, I think option 2 would be the best option.