Streets in 2 different towns merged

[david_mcpherson (Dave McPherson)]

Hi, I walked Williams Street in Sterling MA which runs into Willard St in Leominster MA. Map connected Williams St in Sterling with Williams St Leominster, which is in another Area of Leominster. I have attached the screen shot of the issue. I don’t know if you are able to fix or not. Thanks

[davemorin]

Hi @david_mcpherson, and welcome to the forum.

The screenshot is definitely helpful, thanks for providing that.
Here’s what’s happening:

• The City of Sterling has a Williams St with 6 nodes
• The City of Leominster also has a Williams St with 7 nodes in Leominster but is also including the 6 nodes of Williams St in Sterling in the count
• Your screenshot shows the street in Leominster which you progressed, but did not complete. I checked out your activity and confirmed that it does show the Williams St in Sterling as complete.
• As far as progressing Sterling, you’re good to go, and now when you get over to Leominster you won’t be unable to complete a street with a mix of nodes

As far as what’s causing Leominster to group them together, it’s because of this:

@JamesChevalier

Street has nodes all over : Because of this lack of “street” record, the underlying CityStrides code needs to build its own understanding of a Street. This is (currently; April 2020) done by collecting all the Way records in one city with the same name & collecting all of those together as a Street. This doesn’t always work as expected which is why some cities have a Street with its Nodes scattered in separate areas around the city.

You can read more about this on the Wiki page that quote is from: About the Node, Street and City Data.