James,
Will this show new purple lines on the lifemap as you’re walking/running or just where you’re currently at? Node Hunter isn’t what I want b/c I want to make sure I cover all of each street not just the nodes, so is this what I need, to avoid the 2nd trips to streets?
thanks,
~ Jesse
This only shows where you currently are.
I’ve avoided working on a live tracking (leaving behind a line of where you’ve been), because I know that the web browser will not retain location awareness when it’s put into the background or if the phone is locked. It wouldn’t be even close to 100% accurate, because no GPS data would be collected while the phone was in our pocket. When we open our phone to figure out where we’ve been, it would display a straight line from the last time that the phone was open to the CityStrides site. 
Have you found any instance of a street that continues beyond the last node?
I’m not aware of that being a thing, outside of the possible case where construction extended a street and it hadn’t yet been updated in OpenStreetMap … even then, that would be a temporary issue - fixed once the edit was made.
James,
Makes sense. If I was trying to use it, I would keep the phone in hand, but it would still lock frequently. Bummer.
The case I’m talking about is this scenario not what you described:
I -need- two nodes on Delaware, but I -want- to turn the whole thing purple. I’d miss hitting the southeast blocks with just Node Hunter.
Edit: Yes, I know Node Hunter has the current purple lines; however, unlike those who say they memorize their routes and are perfect about their moving around, if the map doesn’t update, I end up forgetting if I’ve already tried to clean up the above scenario and end up either doing things twice, or worse not at all. Currently using both my life map and recording on the Strava phone app and waste a lot of timing flipping back and forth.
thanks,
~ Jesse
Ah, yeah, partial street completions! I hadn’t considered that - thanks for reminding me.
I’m going to be coming across this issue a bit more pretty soon. I’ll try to remember to take notes of how I handle things.
My guess is that I’ll zoom into areas while route building & I will notice those areas that are marked as complete but actually aren’t. I can’t wait to see how my guess matches reality. 
I find this process helps me a lot (though, I never look back at my tracking app while I’m running, so this falls apart if you do that for some reason)…
The reason I stopped using routes in the various apps I’ve tried them from is that the towns surrounding me quite often have dead end streets where a street that wasn’t dead end is turned into backyards or a 4 way intersection becomes a 3 way with one branch becoming a cul de sac and I end up off the route nearly every day. I know, first world problems
