I happened to notice that there is a small section of Mystic Valley Parkway in Medford MA that I have not run, as you can see in the attached image (near the center).
I am puzzled, though, because this street doesn’t seem to have any nodes there! (I would have noticed this a long time ago if it did, because I had in Medford before some streets were added.)
I can’t figure out why. I’ve looked in OpenStreetMap, and everything suggests that it should be included here. (There is a section further east that I have also not run, but there is not pedestrian access there.)
Any thoughts from the experts? It’s not a big deal to me, and I will probably just go out and run it tomorrow, but I am pretty curious.
I didn’t verify what you said about OSM (you seem to know what you’re doing), but, since you’ve hit four streets that surround this one block, it’s possible that the distances were close enough for the nodes to get counted by CS.
I often have it happen that a parallel street that I didn’t run gets counted that way, or it happens to the end of a perpendicular cul-de-sac that comes right up to the street I was running. CS counts it due to proximity, but I still go back later to hit them and make the area truly complete.
Yes, that’s really weird! All of that Mystic Valley Parkway is not in CS at all, if you look it up, it’s only another part to the west that has nodes. It’s a primary road in OSM, but that should be imported, can’t see why not. @JamesChevalier ?
Up until ~a week ago, that section was tagged highway=trunk which is excluded from CityStrides.
One of the Way records for that section of the street in OSM: Way: Mystic Valley Parkway (1195395340) | OpenStreetMap
Click “View History” at the bottom, and you’ll be able to scroll down through its history - it was the previous version.
In case it’s interesting/useful, I got this info through this process:
in Medford before some streets were added.)
