# City names on maps to be links
**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-names-on-maps-to-be-links/26346
**Category:** Ideas
**Created:** [May 9, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-names-on-maps-to-be-links/26346 "2023-05-09T11:52:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ericjrw](https://community.citystrides.com/u/ericjrw)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 11:52am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-names-on-maps-to-be-links/26346/1 "2023-05-09T11:52:17Z")
Had this idea while looking at my LifeMap, admiring a completed city, and looking at nearby cities. Rather than [searching](https://citystrides.com/cities) for those cities, thought it would be super cool if I could just click a name and have that city open, maybe even in a new window.
Also, searching for cities on the phone is unintuitive for me. I forget exactly why I think this but (layout I think), but I recall struggling a bit. This idea would make searching less necessary when exploring via the CS maps.
Maybe cities that are not in CS, could link to the Wiki for how to add a city?
> [@How to help with missing/broken cities/regions](https://community.citystrides.com/t/how-to-help-with-missing-broken-cities-regions/18699):
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> Head on over to [Missing/Broken Cities Tracker](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F9eB2cteelcdHXMTmMuXg4dIp_lkHWopKajzhJnhCpw/edit?usp=sharing) to report issues and/or help us in the effort to fix data in OpenStreetMap. Please provide as much information as you can. smileyHere’s what I need in that spreadsheet The City, Region, and Country columns must be filled in The OSM Issue column helps, but isn’t required The OSM Fixed column is there to tell me whether or not the city is ready for import; if OSM is not fixed, then I cannot import the city The CS Issue is almost always City Missi…
This is also good info on adding a city to OSM: [Adding a City to OpenStreetMap](https://community.citystrides.com/t/adding-a-city-to-openstreetmap/21433)
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### Author:  [@AndyS](https://community.citystrides.com/u/AndyS)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-names-on-maps-to-be-links/26346/2 "2023-05-09T16:59:29Z")
You can always use node hunter, click on a node, and then click on the city name on the node pop-up. It’s not the exact same as what you’re asking but I think it gets the job done.
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### Author:  [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-names-on-maps-to-be-links/26346/3 "2023-05-09T17:41:57Z")
It looks like this is technically possible… I can listen to clicks on specific layers and take action based on the name that’s present in the layer data. This would mean that I can also e.g. send you to the country page when clicking on a country’s name or the region page when clicking on the region’s name.
The immediate worries that come to mind that prevent me from diving into this…
A) This is a lot of hidden behavior which can easily lead to a “why am I suddenly on the city page?!” situations where the answer isn’t easily provided
B) This interaction can’t interfere with other interactions (Route Builder, Node Hunter, etc) which makes this feature Dangerous™ … This doesn’t _block_ me, but it does require me to move very slowly and carefully because screwing this up would seriously affect things in a really bad way
C) The interactions are entirely based on text - the name - so if it doesn’t exactly match what’s in the CityStrides database, there will be problems
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### Author:  [@jpbari](https://community.citystrides.com/u/jpbari)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/city-names-on-maps-to-be-links/26346/4 "2023-08-07T19:35:49Z")
Is what you are looking for similar to [Cities/Beta](https://citystrides.com/cities/beta)?
I really like this functionality and use it frequently when looking for my next area to tackle.