# City has streets outside its boundary **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 16, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729 "2026-02-16T06:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mcox](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mcox](https://community.citystrides.com/u/mcox)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/1 "2026-02-16T06:17:20Z")
I’m not sure if this has been raised before, but I’ve recently come across a couple of examples. Essentially, the city boundaries don’t align with where the streets think they are.An example is Strathfield South [Mel Cox is running Strathfield South, New South Wales - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/users/24845/cities/193368), where a number of the streets within its boundary are shown as being in Belfield [Belfield, New South Wales - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/cities/193364), the city immediately to the south. An example is [Elliott Street - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/streets/16375244), Elliott Street, which appears within the boundary of Strathfield South, but is listed as being in Belfield and does not appear in the list of streets for Strathfield South. ---
**Author:** ![jlillest](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jlillest](https://community.citystrides.com/u/jlillest)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/2 "2026-02-16T14:29:37Z")
I’ve noticed the same thing. This happens to me on both the City view and Challenge views. Here’s a screenshot from my personal progress on a challenge page: ![Screenshot_2026-02-16_09-22-22](https://d25dflut6m8e53.cloudfront.net/original/2X/c/c239a223f9f06f6d82692994002425daaaaa4b91.jpeg) The City/Town is Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. This is on the west end of town, and the town boundary can be seen as the thick blue line, the thin blue lines are my running routes. The nodes on the right should be showing up, and the nodes on the left are not part of the challenge and shouldn’t show up. This happens along all the edges of my town map as I search for nodes. Some links in case it helps you troubleshoot: my user - [Jon L - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/users/101149) The challenge from above - [Challenge: Blacksburg 2026 - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/challenges/690) Approximate coordinates from map - 37.215, -80.465 ---
**Author:** ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/3 "2026-02-16T15:41:06Z")
A sync has cleaned up Belfield. Strathfield South is still syncing. If there are others, I can sync those as well. The Challenge thing is a totally different issue. That’s just a bug where it isn’t limiting the nodes to within the city border. I’ll look into that today. ---
**Author:** ![mcox](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mcox](https://community.citystrides.com/u/mcox)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2026, 10:14pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/4 "2026-02-16T22:14:56Z")
Thanks James, those two cities look good now. The other example I came across is Sydney Olympic Park [Mel Cox is running Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/users/24845/cities/193142) and Wentworth Point [Mel Cox is running Wentworth Point, New South Wales - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/users/24845/cities/193144). There are a couple of new streets in the north, eg Guwali Street: [Guwali Street - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/streets/24414235). ---
**Author:** ![liz](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@liz](https://community.citystrides.com/u/liz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 10:10am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/5 "2026-02-17T10:10:49Z")
Looks like someone has (fairly) recently changed the boundary of Wentworth Point. I walked a couple of those streets to the west of Hill Road a while back, before Guwali street existed. I was surprised to see them show up under Sydney Olympic Park rather than Wentworth Point. But I see now that that area under developed has been incorporated into Wentworth Point, which makes far more sense from a suburb cohesion perspective. ---
**Author:** ![mcox](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mcox](https://community.citystrides.com/u/mcox)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2026, 10:38am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/6 "2026-02-17T10:38:00Z")
It seems that this was an official boundary change that was gazetted in 2023! Took a while for OSM to catch up…. ---
**Author:** ![mdswift83](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@mdswift83](https://community.citystrides.com/u/mdswift83)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/7 "2026-11-03T20:36:42Z")
I’ve noticed this on a few small towns in my area. Is there a best way to get these cleaned up? I’m new to CityStrides so apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/8 "2026-11-03T21:20:01Z")
This should _not_ be happening. Can you share links to affected cities? ---
**Author:** ![AndyS](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@AndyS](https://community.citystrides.com/u/AndyS)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/9 "2026-11-03T22:08:47Z")
I’ve only ever noticed this for cities that have no striders and haven’t been synced in ages. I was looking at the longest streets in Indiana and thought there were some oddly long ones for places I had never heard of. Here’s one example: > **[Roachdale, Indiana - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/cities/7503)** > > The best tool to help you Run Every Street > **[State Road 236 - CityStrides](https://citystrides.com/streets/1266148)** > > The best tool to help you Run Every Street ---
**Author:** ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-has-streets-outside-its-boundary/29729/10 "2026-11-03T22:09:57Z")
> [@AndyS](#): > > I’ve only ever noticed this for cities that have no striders Oh good! Those are excluded from syncing, so that issue wouldn’t be automatically cleaned up.