Unfortunately both your suggestions won’t work for these two roads I am encountering. As it is dual carriage, maybe I will be allowed to put the lane that is unreachable by foot to foot=no in OSM.
That would be a great compromise, if the Way records are built that way in OSM.
I’ve run a single road like this.
Just run it an early sunday morning at 5 a.m.
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@8f7162110d9eeaf907ab I just wanted add a note of thanks for the inclusion of the overpass turbo query link. I’m living in a new, dynamic, area and it is very useful to find missing OSM info (street names / access settings) that would have impacted my striding.
Hopefully all we Striding OSMers are making use of it. The hit count seems to say yes!
Hi @ericjrw, glad you’re finding it useful! I should probably update the query to reflect changes in what’s included, it’s likely out of date by now 
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Oh, and also making sure my changes are working as intended!
And I was wondering if it was up to date. I made a mental note to look, but forgot.
I’m not seeing the edit tab on my OSM account… I’m using an Android phone, could that be the issue?
I don’t think the id editor (the default when you press edit on OSM) really works on mobile so it might be disabled. I do not see it either. There are some Android apps built for specific purposes, but unless that matches exactly with what you want, the experience is clunky at best. I would recommend using a laptop or desktop so you can use id on the website (advised) or josm as a standalone application (more powerful still, but a higher learning curve).
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How do others feel about
How do others feel about this? I did this today for several miles of road. I wasn’t sure of my watch would pick up the nodes from both sides of the road and I didn’t want to have to run it twice. The road is divided by grass and only has one name. But it does have a separate set of nodes down both sides.
Is this cheating? I’m very on the fence about it.
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If it’s just a stripe of grass separating the lanes I just run it once, ideally down the middle divider. If there is enough space for buildings or sports cages I usually do both sides.
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I personally do them both. Its not super common near where I live and I think the lifemap looks better and more complete. I think most the time it wouldnt be necessary from a CityStrides completion aspect but we all have our own rules on how we like to do things. Not sure there is a right or wrong answer just what works for you in this case.
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What’s the preferred way to handle roads that dead end, but the road (and nodes) continue on the other side of a highway, river, lake, etc.? I’ve got several incompletes because I’d have to backtrack, and run several miles out the way, to get to where the road starts up again. Should these be updated to distinct roads?
EDIT: OSM actually shows as separate roads. So is this a CS issue since they’ve got the same name and within the same city?
Going by your description, they sound correctly mapped in OSM. Citystrides joins all ways of the same name within one city, nothing you can do about it. If you want those streets finished you will indeed have to go out of your way to run the other side.
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