# Option to order by completed street length

**URL:** <https://community.citystrides.com/t/option-to-order-by-completed-street-length/20054>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/option-to-order-by-completed-street-length/20054 "2020-04-15T20:15:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![petje](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/petje/32/2348_2.png) [@petje](https://community.citystrides.com/u/petje)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/option-to-order-by-completed-street-length/20054/11 "2020-04-17T12:49:49Z")

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check out James his explanation why that is not the case in OSM:

> [@Road completed](https://community.citystrides.com/t/road-completed/19316/17):
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> In OSM, there are no “streets”. There are only “ways”, and a way may or may not be the complete street. For example, here are three sections of Cherry Street in my hometown: [way/664493427](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/664493427)[way/8766764](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8766764)[way/664535375](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/664535375) For CityStrides, I compile all of these (and some more; I couldn’t find all of the ways for this street) into a single Street record: [Cherry Street](https://citystrides.com/streets/227113). Additionally, there is no relation between each of the way records in OSM. So if you’re looking at [way/664535375](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/664535375) and [way/8766764](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8766764), th…

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