How is total % complete calculated?

[jpbari (JP Miller)]

@m.george.brown89

I could theoretically run 80% of every street in my city. That’s 80% complete, but it would show up as 0%.

I guess that depends on how you interpret it.

In your example, yes, you may have completed 80% of the map/nodes in your hypothetical city, but you will have actually completed no streets - so the 0% of the streets statistic still holds.

This was an idea floated some time ago, so you certainly aren’t alone in your thinking. I agree with the % of the streets completed method of calculating the metric, though.

Alternative completeness metric: nodes instead of streets

Something all users quickly learn about CityStrides is that completeness is based on street counts, not total distance. This makes obvious sense from the perspective of database management, as well as tracking progress on a street-by-street basis. However, this tends to under-represent the true completeness of runners that live inner-city or downtown vs those that live, work or run in the suburbs. Most city centers are more grid-like, and the streets there tend to be much longer (say 2km for a …