Hey, I’m living out here in the Czech Republic, in the Pardubice region - mostly a rural area. I noticed your database usually only lists the towns around here, the ones that officially have ‘city’ status, but not the villages. I’m guessing it’s because most villages don’t have street names, while towns do. Are you guys planning to do anything about that?
Hello! I just went to Pardubice region on OpenStreetMaps and saw a mixed result: some smaller towns/villages have street names and others don’t. I believe most areas that aren’t currently in CityStrides are due to having no active runners, but the first step is to request the cities or towns are added to CityStrides through the editable spreadsheet: missing/broken cities tracker.
The second, more involved step is to use your on-the-ground knowledge + publicly available GIS data (usually through municipal planning websites) to edit OpenStreetMaps by adding streets and street names, which will then populate in CityStrides once a city update occurs. This has the benefit of not only increasing the number of streets you can add to your count in CityStrides, but also improving OpenStreetMaps as a resource for all the other web apps that use it as a backend.
If you have any questions about anything I wrote please let me know. Otherwise, happy striding 
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Looking at Czechia in CS, I see that Pardubice is part of region Severovychod, and there are 376 cities in that region Severovýchod, Česko - CityStrides
So one question is, are all rural areas that you mention part of any city in CS?
The NUTS2 Severovýchod (Northeastern) region is made up of three NUTS3 self-governing regions — Liberec, Hradec Králové, and Pardubice. I checked the Czech Wikipedia pages for each one and added up the numbers, and the whole region actually has 1,114 municipalities. I have no idea what criteria they used to import only 376 — some of them have literally one street listed, others have dozens. It’s all kinda all over the place.
I will add that OSM is organized via various admin levels and the choice of which level to input can be somewhat complicated. I do most of my runs in Portugal and most of the municipal data is counted at the fregeusia (civil parish) level, which are admin level=8. Some fregeusias include medium/small cities like Abrantes as well as smaller villages within large chunks of the rural surrounding area in the same municipal unit. In many parts of the country these fregeusias can contain 10+ distinct municipalities due to consolidation that happened as part of austerity within the past 2 decades. Meanwhile the bigger cities like Lisbon and Porto are in CityStrides at admin level=7 because they contain many fregeusias that are more like neighborhoods in the traditional sense, and these are so-called “nested cities” because you can focus on finishing individual neighborhoods since their borders are defined.
I give my knowledge of Portugal because I think other countries may be organized differently (i.e., municipalities imported at a different admin level) due to density or administrative choices. Prior to austerity, Portugal would have had many more autonomous fregeusias and thus many more cities and streets as well.