# Other purposes of citystrides

**URL:** <https://community.citystrides.com/t/other-purposes-of-citystrides/29403>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 21, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/other-purposes-of-citystrides/29403 "2025-08-21T21:23:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![bawest1970](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bawest1970](https://community.citystrides.com/u/bawest1970)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/other-purposes-of-citystrides/29403/1 "2025-08-21T21:23:46Z")

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I’m new to citystrides. It strikes me that people covering a large number of streets are in a good position to also be collecting data for all sorts of things.

So, my question is: is anyone doing anything else while visiting their city’s streets, like taking photos of trees, or recording bird song, or documenting something else??

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**Author:** ![washley](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e36b37/32.png) [@washley](https://community.citystrides.com/u/washley)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/other-purposes-of-citystrides/29403/2 "2025-08-22T21:20:12Z")

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Fixing issues with the OpenStreetMap data 😄

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**Author:** ![mark.darlington](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@mark.darlington](https://community.citystrides.com/u/mark.darlington)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/other-purposes-of-citystrides/29403/3 "2025-08-23T15:53:25Z")

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yeah fixing the map but also looking at urban history. In the UK we have 40+ maps from 1830 to 1970’s online. I really enjoy exploring the area then coming home and seeing how the local area has changed and in some cases from mining / farming to housing in 50 years. Some times old walls / buidlings remain other times it just road names or alley ways cutting across the estate

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**Author:** ![die\_go](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@die\_go](https://community.citystrides.com/u/die_go)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/other-purposes-of-citystrides/29403/4 "2025-08-23T23:14:21Z")

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Ground truthing street names, public paths, parks, schools, stop signs, and other info for OSM and taking photos to create a sort of visual archive.

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**Author:** ![olejniczak.adam31](https://community.citystrides.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/2acd7d/32.png) [@olejniczak.adam31](https://community.citystrides.com/u/olejniczak.adam31)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/other-purposes-of-citystrides/29403/5 "2025-08-24T15:17:32Z")

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Updating OSM as others have mentioned, photo walks, also once I had to survey the flat counts in various types of apartment blocks for my thesis 😄