Belfast not on the city list

ablee · January 25, 2025, 10:35pm

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

JamesChevalier · January 26, 2025, 5:43pm

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

ablee · January 26, 2025, 11:17pm

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

JamesChevalier · January 27, 2025, 5:28pm

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 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4183318 and https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/15812155

I seem to have these choices…

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)
Import the admin level 10 places which would split Belfast up into these places (click Run in top left)
Import places tagged as civil_parish which would split Belfast up into Shankill & Knockbreda
Import only the historic Belfast and leave the rest of Northern Ireland unmapped

Which option leaves you least mad?

ablee · January 27, 2025, 6:49pm

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

ablee · February 8, 2025, 1:21pm

Hi James, I’m just checking where you able to get this updated?

JamesChevalier · February 22, 2025, 5:59pm

Not yet.

I’d love some other people to chime in on their view - ideally people local / local-enough to Belfast. It can be difficult to undo these kinds of decisions, so hearing from the community that I’m about to make a good decision … or the least worst decision … helps me feel good that I won’t be screwing over Future Self™