The “rule” is currently that a city doesn’t get added to your list in your profile page until you’ve completed at least one street.
There’s no “city cleanup” code, so it is possible that a city is updated from changes in OpenStreetMap in a way that leave you with a 0-street city in your list.
I’m strongly considering changing this “rule” to list cities in your profile page where you have progressed at least one street. This will change a few things:
A lot of people’s city count will increase
The list of cities will include a lot of 0% progressed cities
Along the same reasoning, the list of cities will include a lot of e.g. “0 of 1839 streets completed” entries
That may be confusing, but I think it’s overall more accurate.
For what it’s worth, I seem to currently have 17 cities in progress with 0 completed streets, so the system wasn’t working perfectly to begin with. (perhaps they had a street and lost it after an update?)
Someone recently wrote me privately asking, basically, about this change. I had forgotten I even created this post, so I want to see if there are any counterpoints … All I can think of is that it could create some number of 0% / 0 street count cities for people and I’m not sure if that would be confusing to people. I think that since I’ve added individual street progress display to city pages, it wouldn’t be that bad - you’d be able to sort the street list by progress & see which streets have been touched.
I guess it would be slightly irritating from the “speaking about CityStrides” perspective in that I can look at the count of users’ cities and say “people have completed at least one street in over 99k cities” … I’d have to rephrase that to “people have run in [new number] cities” … minor, but there is a finality to “have completed at least one street” that isn’t present in “have run in” (which has the followup discussion of whether those runs completed any streets) … definitely a me problem
Lots of ‘cities’ that I have got a single partial in, because I am trying (in the summer) to complete my county. It does seem silly to have them listed. Hoping that I can find the will to complete the last couple of hundred streets in the county as soon as daylight hours allow.
When I travel, I often take scenic routes over completionist routes, and it would be great to see this in my city list. I don’t see a downside, as these cities are just at the bottom of the list anyway.
definitely a me problem 
