There’s been an ongoing issue where it appears as though streets are being counted as completed twice. There’s this thread with some conversation on the topic: Fixing street double count I approached this by: Adding the ability to mark a city as “nested” Adding the ability to relate a nested city…

Thanks, that now shows that the 9 nested cities only cover about a third of the parent city. Similar to Edinburgh.

This is awesome! Thanks for doing this. I’m curious if there’s a way now to create new nested cities so that gigantic areas (like Queens or Brooklyn) can be broken up into more bite sized chunks.

[image] ross.freilich: I’m curious if there’s a way now to create new nested cities so that gigantic areas (like Queens or Brooklyn) can be broken up into more bite sized chunks. It depends on what data is present in OSM. For example, there’s Manhattan Manhattan, New York - CityStrides (admin…

Wish this could be done for Boston too. I would have been much more interested in trying to finish Allston or Jamaica Plain if that were the case.

First you’d have to figure out where those boundaries even are! On the impossibility of mapping Boston neighborhood lines | Universal Hub

So what do you see this as the scope of this? Limited to fixing double street counts, or can it be expanded to split big cities into smaller chunks or combine small villages into bigger targets?

All of the city border data comes from OpenStreetMap. If sub-sections of a city exist in there, I can import those into CityStrides as nested cities. I’ve done that for a number of larger cities & I’m happy to add more.

One thing I’ve noticed is some roads in “nested cities” that are in the nested city but not the larger city don’t count at all. I don’t know why, I haven’t investigated in OSM, but for instance in my recent activity ( CityStrides ) there are 15 unique street names in my completed list, but it only say…

I’ve been trying to figure out Aberdeen, actually. The smaller nested cities has been helpful to me since I live in the midst of all those, but it’s clearly a broken system. I covered a road last week (Prospect Terrace) which has the same name as a road in Dyce. OSM/CS seems to treat them as the sam…

I think the boundaries for the nested ‘cities’ in OSM for Aberdeen are, like Edinburgh, for community councils, but I think it may be a work in progress and not all of the Aberdeen community council areas have been added to OSM yet. Here’s the full list: Community Councils | Aberdeen City Council H…

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