I live and run in Luxembourg. I’m trying to run all the streets in my city, so this CityStrides tool would be perfect. Unfortunately, no city in Luxembourg seems to be part of tool, meaning that I see progress only in foreign cities I visited or have lived in before.
Is there any way I can add Luxembourg myself? I’ve already requested it in the “List of cities to add” a couple of times in the past, but maybe I misunderstand something fundamental about the whole concept.
Or maybe adding new cities is a lot of work for the developer, and there simply is a long backlog? In that case, I apologise for being so impatient.
Many thanks for your help and for this tool, which I think I would enjoy using
It looks like Luxembourg is present in CityStrides as a region.
My data comes from OpenStreetMap, and after a little research it looks like I just haven’t grabbed the right ‘level’ yet - it looks like that does exist for me to import.
So the good news is that I can import it (some cities I have to trace/export myself, which is very tedious), but the less-than-good news is that it does take a bit of effort.
The main reason for the lack of progress in importing more cities is that the site has gotten much more popular recently & I’ve had to put in more effort into maintaining the infrastructure. It looks like things are starting to even out, so I’m hoping to get back to working through the ‘List of cities to add’ collection. This city is near the top of the list!
FYI, “Province de Luxembourg” is also the name of a province of Belgium, which is why it does exist as a region as well. Up until the 1830’s, Luxembourg’s territory consisted of the current country (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg) as well as the current region of Belgium named “Luxembourg”.
Bumping this thread as it’s similar to another problem I"m having.
I’ve been doing a lot of runs in the city of Oakwood, Ohio and never gotten any progress in that city. I always figured, “hey, maybe Oakwood is actually just a part of Dayton…” but it’s not. It is its own unique city between Dayton and Kettering, Ohio. A great example of a run that got almost no streets progressed is here.
On that run, everything north of the road Dorothy Lane and west of Shroyer is the city of Oakwood. Yet I got no credit for roads in that city today and the city doesn’t show up at all in City Strides. The irony of that is that in Dayton, Oakwood is THE premiere spot for runners. On a morning like today it’s not uncommon to see anywhere from a dozen to a 100 runners over the course of a few hours running around the neighborhoods.
As always, there is not a rush in the world on fixing this. Just bringing the issue to light.
Hi James, I’m still checking in every now in a while to see if my city (Luxembourg city, Luxembourg) has become available. Unfortunately it still hasn’t. I am sure you are very busy with other things. If there’s anything I can do myself to get Luxembourg added (modify something in OSM or something like that? - never done it but could try to read into that), please do let me know Thank you!
Thanks @jpbari - yeah, I asked @shukka to post this in here because the conversation started in the Slack channel and I wanted to make sure I didn’t lose it.
Would it be possible to add Glendale, Arizona to the bottom of that list? It’s a suburb of Phoenix with ~250K people, I didn’t see it on the spreadsheet, and wasn’t sure you wanted people tinkering in there.
has any progress been made in how to quickly and easily change the cities that are only nodes into bordered relations? I admit that I don’t have the time or expertise to do the OSM edits on these myself, although I would help out if I could. The little bit of reading I have done on it goes right over my head.
I see the city Dresden Germany in the citydB. I ran there some streets a few years ago. I don’t see myself in the runners list. Is that because the sync is still looking for runs of people matching the streets of a new imported city?
If a city exists only as a node, a new “relation” needs to be created in OSM. That relation needs to be named the same as the city/node and the way OSM relations work is they have other OSM objects as “members” The node, as well as a closed set of ways that make up the border need to be in the relation. As for how to tag them so OSM looks at them correctly, I just cheated and copied the next town over when I tried it with one.
added a city last weekend, I’m new to all of this city strides stuff, wondering how long it generally takes to get one added to city strides? thank you!
Thank you!
I ran the code that should have marked everyone’s progress … I’ll take another look today.
