# Streets with the same name show up as one street in Citystrides

**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/streets-with-the-same-name-show-up-as-one-street-in-citystrides/18231
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 12, 2019, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/streets-with-the-same-name-show-up-as-one-street-in-citystrides/18231 "2019-08-12T12:13:19Z")
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### Author: ![jpbari](https://community.citystrides.com/user_avatar/community.citystrides.com/jpbari/32/3023_2.png) [@jpbari](https://community.citystrides.com/u/jpbari)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/streets-with-the-same-name-show-up-as-one-street-in-citystrides/18231/37 "2021-07-02T16:58:24Z")

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This is a well-known and often-discussed situation.

It stems from the fact that OSM (where CS gets its data) has no real understanding of a “street” so @JamesChevalier has to come up with a way to group things. He uses naming, so sometimes there is weirdness like this.

This is one of many different threads, but it has some good info in it.

> [@Count every street in a city when 2 or more share the same name](https://community.citystrides.com/t/count-every-street-in-a-city-when-2-or-more-share-the-same-name/21436):
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> Spoiler: I have found almost 2000 of those streets in my hometown alone, and many cities with similar cases. Some street names are so popular that they have ben given several times within the city limits. Typically, it happens when smaller independent cities are re-grouped into a bigger city at some point, a general tendency in the public administration of different countries (in Europe - I don’t know the situation overseas). This issue has been discussed in the past but not in the idea categ…

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