Problem: Users want a mechanism for self-accountability and to help them track what streets they have and have not done. CityStrides considers a street completed by counting % of nodes, but GPS drift/inaccuracy can result in the actually run street being incomplete or conversely, a nearby street being completed when it was not actually run. Some users, such as myself, manually correct GPS trace before uploading to CityStrides, but this is time consuming and tedious. The “Mark as manually complete” button allows users to correct for the former issue, but there is no remedy for the latter other than manual correction. Even so, because of the node radius, sometimes a street is marked complete due to proximity of its nodes to another street - even in hard mode.
Proposal: Add a button to a completed road page that allows a user to mark the road as manually incomplete. Doing so should make the road appear in the Incomplete tab on a user’s City page, remove it from their completed street count, and the nodes of the street appear red when using Node Hunter* (*unless sharing a node with another completed street…need to think through the practical aspect of this). There can be a page of manually incomplete streets with the date marked for tracking purposes.
In future activities (after the date marked manually incomplete), any activity that completes a node of a manually incomplete street will prompt the user (via notification?) to review if the street should be completed. Additionally, a user can always remove their own manually incomplete streets from the page (“Unmark as manually incomplete”).
Benefits: Should be compatible with current CityStrides system, ie shouldn’t require any radically new code other than another page; Easy to use self-accountability mechanism for users interested in tracking their true street count; Could synergize with another idea I will propose soon about peer reviewing of completed cities - stay tuned
Example from an activity yesterday: I ran Rua Comandante Sacadura Cabral, but got credit for Praceta da Concórdia very close nearby, which I clearly did not run. I would also get credit for it if I had Hard Mode enabled (I do not). If the proposed button were created, I could press “Go” on the street from the activity in the screenshot and mark it manually incomplete.
I can understand what you are going for, but I see an issue with it: how would City Strides know when to unset “Manually incomplete”? All the nodes are already completed, and this was apparently not reflecting a street that was really run, so running those nodes again should not make the street complete. So marking it incomplete would mean it stays like that until manually removed again.
Basically, once a road is marked manually incomplete, it must be manually unmarked; but based on CityStrides’ node-based detection, there should ways of triggering a prompt to do so.
I have had a few roads marked complete that weren’t. Honestly I just visually scan for those and make sure to just go grab them. Is there a way to fix my GPS tracks that are messed up? What is a good tool for that? I have like 4-5 runs with some bad drift and dont really want to go back to run those if I can avoid it…
I totally get your first point, and that’s why I’m mostly presenting this as an optional self-accountability mechanism. Think of it as a companion to Hard Mode because it is another tool to adjust your algorithmically-generated street count towards what is your true street count.
If someone tries the tool that Kevin mentioned, deletes a Garmin activity > 5 years old, and tries to re-import it, does that override the ‘no Garmin activities older than 5 years old’ limit that occurs during the initial new user load? I have a few straight lines and triangles I wouldn’t mind getting off my map before it becomes a poster.
Hi Jesse, to be clear this was just an idea and has not been implemented! But happy to be reminded of it because I still think it’s a good idea, if somewhat marginal in terms of importance.
As to your specific question, I believe the time limit applies to uploading an account history, i.e. multiple (dozens or hundreds+) of activities. If you manually upload a single, specific activity that will not be subject to the time limit.
Kevin - understood. I was focused on the ‘fixing up my activity’ portion of your response vs CS being changed. For the CS portion/example… that wouldn’t bother me, as I’d go back sooner than later to make that short street purple and I don’t use node hunter anyhow.
