# Multiple streets with the same name are grouped as one

**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/multiple-streets-with-the-same-name-are-grouped-as-one/29638
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**Created:** [January 18, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/multiple-streets-with-the-same-name-are-grouped-as-one/29638 "2026-01-18T17:33:54Z")
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### Author: ![JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jameschevalier/32/2_2.png) [@JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/u/JamesChevalier)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2026, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/multiple-streets-with-the-same-name-are-grouped-as-one/29638/1 "2026-01-18T17:33:55Z")

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OpenStreetMap doesn’t have a concept of “streets”, it only has Way records which are sections of roads. A street may be composed of one or more Way records. I have to piece these Way together within CityStrides to produce the full Street. I do that by matching them on their name.  
If a city has two streets with the same name, CityStrides joins them as one street.

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I’m working on a fix for this, which revolves around splitting streets wherever the underlying Way records no longer share a Node ID. When several Way records actually form a street, the data will be along the lines of Way A having Nodes 1,2,3 and Way B having Nodes 3,4,5 - it’s that shared Node 3 along with the same name tag that identifies itself as a single street.

In my local testing I’ve noticed a number of OSM edits need to be made afterwards - and this is in my smaller 300-500 street cities. Overall, these have been _good_ edits that improve the map … but it still is editing work, and will likely confuse some people along the way.

The most common edit I’ve seen so far is that small connecting Way records around a roundabout need to have a name added ([example](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1016899581) & [example](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1016899582)).

Another common way that streets get split up is when they’re weirdly disjointed, like [this section](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8767373#map=18/42.214208/-72.627311) & [this section](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8768501#map=18/42.214208/-72.627311) … In the updated code, those will exist as two separate Arlington Street records in CityStrides.

Conversation around this fix I’m working on should go into [Count every street in a city when 2 or more share the same name - #7 by JamesChevalier](https://community.citystrides.com/t/count-every-street-in-a-city-when-2-or-more-share-the-same-name/21436/7)