# Total miles in a city idea

**URL:** https://community.citystrides.com/t/total-miles-in-a-city-idea/18116
**Category:** Completed
**Created:** [June 4, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/total-miles-in-a-city-idea/18116 "2019-06-04T17:32:10Z")
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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: [March 2, 2020, 9:28am UTC](https://community.citystrides.com/t/total-miles-in-a-city-idea/18116/9 "2020-03-02T09:28:32Z")

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@JamesChevalier: I don’t understand how a street/line doesn’t have an exact start and end? A line drawn in OSM always have a start and end. Can you give an example? I would have thought that getting distances between nodes of a line in OSM would give an fairly accurate overview of the street length, and added together for the nett distance in meters/miles you have to run in a city.

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