What about restricted streets with nodes

[pilonguis55 (Eligio Garcia)]

Hello, I have just completed my streets for Amarillo Texas. There are some nodes on my map that I am unable to complete:

1. Reba Circle - Family owned private street behind secure gates - no entry allowed.
2. Sarazen Plaza - the street ends where I stopped, and a actual home where the street continues.
3. Fox Street -a Restricted road owned by the City of Amarillo and leads into the International Airport.
4. Alert Dr. - Also restricted, same as above.
5. Charlie St. - Another Restricted Street owned by the Nuclear Company - Pantex.
6. Ave A - Restricted Street owned by Bell Helicopter.
7. 13th & 5th Streets - Both streets are Restricted and run into Avenue A (above).

Your assistance with removing these nodes will show that I’m 100% complete with Amarillo. I enjoy this website and look forward to my daily runs while using it. I wish you had an app.

Thank you in advance and I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Eligio Garcia

[davemorin]

Hi @pilonguis55 and welcome to CityStrides! Nice work on completing the streets of Amarillo (by mornin’, up from San Antone )

Check out this wiki page about the node data to get a general idea of how the data works overall. Specifically check out the section about “Capturing Inaccessible Nodes”.

The main two options you have are to 1) Update the streets in OSM (if the nodes are actually incorrect), or 2) manually mark them as complete.

Manual completion seems like the best option here. Search Amarillo, Texas in Cities, then search streets, then select the “Mark as manually complete” button.

Example:

[ericjrw (Eric Wes)]

In addition to the good info from from Dave, sounds like many need to be tagged as private… Which is done in OSM.

Here’s a post on the subject: OSM question about gated private roads

It goes into a little more detail about the edit required (splitting ways and changing tags).

Sarazen was just a road (way) edit, and the change is obvious from the aerial map, so I did it. See: OpenStreetMap (it might take a while for the actual change to propagate in OSM, and a little longer for CS… roughly a month from the last update date listed on the CS page.)

Oh, I see the gate on Reba, so I added that and made the road after the gate private.

I see the gate on Fox too. So fixed that.

Same for Alert, so fixed that.

The last 3, Ave A, 13th and 5th, I don’t see gates, so don’t feel comfortable changing. If you can shed more light on that area, i.e. where the gates are, I should be able to help. Or take a shot at it yourself. As a bon-a-fide Strider, I’m sure you’ll find more edits.

Welcome and congrats on Amarillo. 1870 streets (1201.52 miles) is an impressive city to complete.

PS. Just noticed Amarillo was last updated 2022-08-01, so if you are quick, you might get the changes in before the next update. That’s kinda why I jumped on those changes I did.

[ericjrw (Eric Wes)]

Update: I can see some of the gates on Google Street View, so added them and made the parts after the gate private. You’ll still need to run up to the gate, unless the gate is within 25m (see: Making them Count) of the road you were on, or if you really want to know you’ve run on everything you can.

Oh, and 5th is really 17th. Fixed that too!

Need to wait for the update to see if I got them all. Oh, about OSM updates and manually completed streets. After a city is updated (in CS), Striders are reprocessed, and if a street is now complete, the “manually updated” will be removed.

PS. Found a street with a missing name, in OSM, so looking at your life map, you have at least one more to run. Hint: John Stiff looks like a nice park.

Oh, and in that area, by the airport, many “streets” are really “avenues” per the official Amarillo map : ArcGIS Web Application

So fixed that too.

[ericjrw (Eric Wes)]

Congrats, @pilonguis55 (Eligio), I see you are now 100% of Amarillo, Texas - CityStrides. At 1863 streets, that’s a very good Stride!

PS. How long did that take?

[pilonguis55 (Eligio Garcia)]

Hi Eric,

The Amarillo city strides took me a little over two years to complete.

I have just completed The Colony streets and there are some streets that need to be updated, as they are outside the city limits, these streets are the following:

Ashford

Belleview

Braemar

Castlebridge

Cromwell

Cumberland

Dorset

Fairway

Haddington

Isle of Skye

Ivey

Also, Harrison Plaza is gated and restricted property.

This has taken me about three years to complete. My son in law lives here and he completed his city strides last year and introduced me to this website. We both enjoy this website very much. Would Iike to know if you are planning an app for this as it would be beneficial.

Thank you so kindly for your assistance.

Sincerely,

Eligio Garcia

[ericjrw (Eric Wes)]

Hello Eligio, I just got back from a brief trip to Florida (I live in Texas).

I’ll take a look, and see what I can do, but you (or your SIL) can also do the edits.

All the info is in the wiki:

About OpenStreetMap

Anyone can make edits in OpenStreetMap (OSM), all it takes is a free account. After you create your account, there is even a tutorial (see below) that teaches the basics of OSM editing, as well as a “Beginner’s Guide” Also, at the bottom of the OSM Welcome Page is this: No Time To Edit? Add a Note! If you just want something small fixed and don’t have the time to sign up and learn how to edit, it’s easy to add a note. Just go to the map and click the note icon [Note] This will add a marker …

OSM Basics

This is a resource that summarizes a few techniques for fixing common OpenStreetMap (OSM) errors that found their way into CityStrides. It is meant as a shortcut for those unwilling to navigate the OSM learning curve for the sake of a few edits, a more detailed write-up/guide can be found here. As of October 2020 map updates are being pulled into CityStrides, detail of the query can be found here. Signing up: Head over to https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and create an account for yourself. To st…

And this explains how it is used:

About the Node, Street, and City Data

Overview This Wiki is all about nodes, streets and cities What they are and where the data comes from How they are counted, and Strategies to complete the hard-to-get ones Definitions & Source of Data Note: All of this data comes from OpenStreetMap (OSM). It’s accessed via queries to a Overpass. Nodes: these are the “atoms” or building blocks of CityStrides. They are the individual points which make up a street. Streets: streets are essentially collections of nodes, and are the eleme…

I’ll let you know if I look into it, but I’ve got some catching up to do first.

Eric