I wouldn’t recommend playing this particular game right now, of course. With no races to train for this year, I decided to do it again (this time in Vernon Hills, Illinois – read about that HERE). It’s a great game for data nerds and completionists like me. mark214 (Const James) August 26, 2021, . And please report on your progress. Or maybe Germany. I've been using this for awhile and it's lots of fun. Assume that any feature I describe here that you can’t find on the site is potentially a Subscriber-only feature, but please post a comment and let me know! a mathematic puzzle called the (Chinese) Postman Problem, Review of my 2020 Technology Trends and Predictions. They may require some motivation. giving rise to action; staying fit and sane through running, It may be more challenging to get workouts in right now with gyms closed. I do this manually, although there’s some discussion on the CityStrides forums of using OpenGIS tools to do automatic route creation. If you don’t like waiting for your data to upload after your activity, I recommend paying for the $2/month membership. At the end of the runs, I compared the data generated by my watch on Garmin Connect with my map and highlighted the completed streets. Inaccessible nodes, Manual Completion vs OSM edits. I notice that highway=pedestrian is included in the CS import, but not … Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, 3:01/1:21/37:44/17:38/9:59/4:58/4:50/2:29/61.9/27.5/14.1 woot. Here’s some more inspiration for you: running every single street in San Fransisco: Your email address will not be published. There are several apps to help you with the challenge. Just navigate to the streets in red on your map and off you go.” That could be a real plus. I’ve run 21 streets in Fairview and 1200 streets in San Jose, but my Fairview percentage is still 2% higher than San Jose. The stress of this is compounded by the fact that we have been dealing with this for eight months, and aside from perhaps the hope of a vaccine on the horizon, there is no real immediate end in sight. Some people apparently think of that as cheating, but at the end of the day, nobody else competes in my city and it's a goal for myself anyways. The site was pretty good but did have a few glitches, both in terms of occasional syncing and what it defined as a street (the Wendy’s drive-thru, a dirt maintenance path through the woods). StreetFerret, advertises  “LiveFerret mode” which “shows a StreetFerret map of your local area, with an icon for your current position. If you’re walking, driving to each neighborhood may make more sense. If you’ve made it this far, you’re either intrigued by the idea or already using the site regularly. Transversing the same routes every day may get boring. When I started out I just enjoyed the run and didn’t worry so much how I was covering the streets, but since I had set a deadline goal for myself, I had to get a little more efficient. And I’ve been told that the sub could use #content. One feature I'd love to see is a "sort by longest" for completed roads. Some days I’ll view the top 40 or 50 streets on the list at the same time and look for clusters of nearby incomplete streets. I love CityStrides! Here’s how: Determine how you will track your progress. var boundingBox = getBoundingBox (response); Get the bounding box of this GeoJSON data. When I did this in New Jersey, I used a paper map and highlighter. If I’m frozen by decision paralysis — hey, San Jose is a pretty gigantic city — I’ll actually use the city view to figure out where to find the nearest street(s) at the top of the alphabetic list of of incomplete streets. There were a few portions of streets it didn’t give me credit for which I clearly ran, although last I checked – after 24 hours – it was still uploading my data. You might consider becoming a subscriber to the site if you find yourself using it frequently. Yes, Garmin is now on there (that's what I use). Get the city's GeoJSON data. Hopefully he implements it soon! I was getting frustrated with the strava delay in syncs (even as a supporter), so I set up my Garmin to also sync to MapMyRun, and it allows my runs to show up on CityStrides with basically no delay. So. Your email address will not be published. But like CityStrides, it had a couple glitches. (safely #socialdistancing, of course). dear @Strava users and #OCD inspired runners: if you're using @CityStrides and #StreetFerret, which one do you like … Don’t go nuts over the data. StreetFerret, advertises "LiveFerret mode" which "shows a StreetFerret map of your local area, with an icon for your current … It does so by connecting to your Strava, MapMyRun, or Runkeeper account and slurping your entire run history; after that, it’ll track each new run you do and add it to your “LifeMap”. Yes, I’m blaming Canada. Might try to tick them off alphabetically :), New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Press J to jump to the feed. The competitor that I am, making this game out of running gave me motivation to put in the miles I wouldn’t have otherwise. LiveFerret mode will continually move the map based on your current position so that you can efficiently ferret out missing streets during your run. Playground at DC General a "Victory for Children" By Hannah Roop Editorial Intern. 20 Things for which to be Grateful – even in 2020, Some non-advice for the parents-to-be as I look back on my daughter’s first 21 years, Thoughts from Home:Life During a Global Pandemic. I've been on the site for a couple years now, but started to go for 100% in my city around a month and a half ago as a way to break up the monotony of running the same routes and give me something to work for while I base build. There's also an option when looking through streets to mark them as complete manually, which I've resorted to doing for airport/military roads, roads with nodes which are actually people's driveways, etc. I think I may ask on the forums over there, because this has been something that's been bugging me since the shelter-at-home started here and I dove back down the CityStrides rabbit hole. Howdy folks — after u/mpalmer1124 asked me an innocent question about the site today, I figured I’d do a writeup on CityStrides for the sub. Once I’ve identified an area, I’ll drop into Strava’s Route Creator or Garmin’s Course tool, find a decent place to park my car (usually by a city park, or a shopping area, or a school), and map a route from there that hits as many new streets as possible. The site is currently so popular that the Strava sync queue time is now being measured in days, so I’m probably just making it harder on myself by publicizing the site but I’m sure usage will decline at some point. If you’ve run all the nodes that are attached to a street, congratulations, you’ve completed that street. He shifted to automatic import from openstreetmap, You are supposed edit openstreetmap.I would probably probably mark them as access=private or somethink like that, https://community.citystrides.com/t/about-openstreetmap/19815, Look in forum for more discussiosn about edditing OSM, https://community.citystrides.com/t/osm-editing-guidelines/18541. If it’s the former, welcome! 1h. The longer-term users of the site could probably speak up here, but I seem to remember that at one point many moons ago there was a way to report a street as inaccessible/dangerous/whatever; I just dug around for it for a few minutes (again, for about the tenth time) and couldn't find it. I'm actually responsible for some of the optimisations when it first got Reddit linked. There are several apps to help you with the challenge. The coolest area, plane wise, was the 100s / N Temple gated road just south of the runway. She’s the one who told me about the site, a few years ago. You know what you covered. Shelter-At-Home games: CityStrides and #EverySingleStreet. At the District's family shelter at the former DC General . Go check it out. And another disclaimer: I have no connection to the site aside from enjoying being a user. The aim is simple – try and run all the streets in your local area, town or city. Occasionally when I’m having a lazy day and I just want to fill in spaces that I missed in earlier runs (for easy percentage-bumping) I'll zoom into an area that’s mostly run already, and then click the magnifying glass icon on the right side of the map. JamesChevalier (James Chevalier) August 25, 2021, 5:45pm . You might consider pinging the site owner on Twitter or in the forums; I think he has to add cities to the master database, but I've got some extremely tiny towns in my lifemap so he probably just hasn't received a request for it yet...? As far as the longest uninterrupted road thing, that's an interesting idea! And it’s fun. If you were really dedicated you'd join up. http://www . These tracking sites aren’t perfect. The way the numbers are computed is very specific: If you go out and run fifteen miles of a single sixteen-mile street, you’ll find that your citywide percentage hasn’t changed a bit; however, if you zigzag back and forth down dozens of cul-de-sacs on your three-mile run, you could bump it by a whole lot — this is because the completion percentage is based on number of streets in the city vs. number of completed streets. MANY. I’m curious how other folks are using it these days. The game, of course, is to make all the numbers on your Profile page go up. At some point in the last six months I finally found myself at the top of the San Jose “Striders” page, meaning that I’ve run more complete streets in San Jose than anyone else on the site. wes (Wes Plate) December 17, 2020, 10:31pm #1. If I do, I'll post any info I get here as well. Now that I'm getting pretty far from my house, I've started incorporating biking to starting points for my runs so that I can get some additional easy exercise in. Howdy folks — after u/mpalmer1124 asked me an innocent question about the site today, I figured I'd do a … I got on a few years ago and remember to check it off and on--so I'm thrilled you brought it up so I can get in a few more percent in my current (temporary) location before moving! Start with. Erik Wilde @dret. So how does one go about running every street in their town, village, or city? Once you’ve hooked up your account, you can go to your Profile Page to see your most recent activity and the completion percentage for cities that you’ve run in. I needed to figure out the quickest way to get to a new street and make the best use of every run. In the event my watch dies in the middle of a long outing, I can simply switch over to Strava on my phone for the remainder of the miles/streets. In my first week of running every street I have kept within a mile radius of my house, and I have never been to most of the roads I have “completed” within that mile! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Another is StreetFerret. Somewhere, very near to you, is a state park (if you live in the U.S, or some local equivalent if you don't) that you've never been to. Thank you for checking.  http://sock-doc.com/ Good site dealing with injuries of the foot/leg http://www.halffanatics.com/ Collect stats on your half marathon progress. Support. Where I am in northern Illinois, we are again being asked to adhere to some strict guidelines around social distancing including a new “stay-at-home recommendation” which went into effect yesterday.Â. CityStrides retweeted. All but one of the 39 runs that made up my recent challenge were run from home. I’m not on Strava and prefer not to give out my running info to other companies but I really want this feature or something like a personalized Strava heat amp but on Garmin Connect. probably paths/ways have been entered differently by different users in OSM. Start with Strava or Garmin and then link Heatflask, CityStrides or StreetFerret. You can then click into your “LifeMap” to see a map with all your runs overlayed (similar to Strava’s Running heatmap, but monochromatic), but I find it much more useful to click on a particular city and start exploring that way. hans1 (Hans Westerback) December 21, 2020, 10:22am #1. Getting up and moving around is a must for both mental and physical health. This provides some back-up. If you’re looking for more ideas and some inspiration, read about these runners who ran their cities: Good luck! That’ll show me which nodes are still available in the current map view, and from there I can finish out streets that I’d previously almost finished. I also used a GSP watch. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Pedestrian vs footway. It's allowed me to stumble onto some new roads that have become added to my main rotation. Learn how your comment data is processed. The developer said in the forums he is looking at adding Garmin to the list of platforms that can be connected, mainly to reduce the number of people syncing over from Strava. I was fortunate each time to live almost dead center in each of the towns I was running. CityStrides is a website that will tell you what percentage of your hometown you’ve run. When I last used it the data from Open Street Map was very noisy with lots of stuff that wasn't runnable (like train tracks and station platforms). some of my "footway" in my … Required fields are marked *. Result - loading my profile sucked. This is calling the , function () { that appears after the 'map on style load' block. Working from home may have also made us a little more sedentary this year than even the average desk job that probably included a commute and moving throughout a much larger office building setting. I've moved twice since starting to run, and have done some races in lots of random cities, so I don't know how to figure out what my longest uninterrupted stretch has been. CUL-DE-SACS. It will require lots of concentration. We have lived in our house for more than 15 years. It's always been a one-man shop, and I think the guy behind it has kinda wanted to do his own thing for quite a while, but I suspect that all the attention he's been getting for the last few months (when everyone in the world decided they were a runner) may have changed his view a bit. If I decide to tackle other cities (and running every street in Chicago has crossed my mind), I’d need to drive. I suspect there'd be some way to plug your runs into OpenGIS to figure it out, but I don't have any idea how to even start with that. One tip I have for new members is to connect your account to MapMyRun. CityStrides offers Advice for Beginners. I haven’t actively used StreetFerret but did connect it to my Stava account (their only option right now) to see how each site compared. I really enjoy running but keeping all my running so localised during lockdown can be monotonous. I then used their map to guide me through the route. I recommend Strava. Join our 90-day challenge on to learn about Dr. Cooper's 8 healthy steps and take action from his inspiring story of igniting the fitness revolution. If it’s the latter, I encourage you to leave a comment with any tips or tricks you’ve found for either using the site or playing the game. Having planes like 100 feet over head coming in for a landing while running … When I did this somewhat manually in New Jersey, I took a picture of the paper map and could check it periodically. CityStrides helps you run every single street of your city. Instead of running you could skateboard or cycle the routes, or even walk them (but that would take a very long time). Here’s one answer: run every street, or as the founder called it, every single street. There are a few at the top of my list that I’m unlikely to run anytime soon — for instance, one is inside a gated country club — but below them I can click on the “Show” button and then zoom in on the map to figure out where to run next. Even though my data was recorded on my Garmin watch, it’s automatically uploaded to Strava as well and therefore, CityStrides. Boredom is what first motivated me over three years ago to run every street in my town (at the time that was Ramsey, New Jersey – read about that HERE). ZeLoneWolf is Brian Sperlongano at StreetFerret, maybe ask him what he meant? This time, I used Map My Run to plot a course for each run. I noticed a few weeks ago that there's been some recent "#EverySingleStreet" push by... err, I think it was a shoe company, but it made it to Twitter... that has resulted in some publicity for the site as well. CityStrides offers planning tips. 4.1K Followers, 1.6K Following. I’m in San Jose, where there are 9623 identified streets; I’ve “completed” 1211 of them giving me (at the time of writing) 12.58% completion. Definitely worth putting in a feature request to CityStrides, though! The best way to #RunEveryStreet So it feels like I'm running 75% of the area roads twice. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I like the map a bit more and it shows more stats which is nice. Another one that I keep an eye on is the “Striders” of my hometown, visible from the city page. For those that may be walkers, or beginner runners, and not interested in incurring the expense of a GSP watch right now, an app on your phone will work just fine. Been hitting it hard, and went from ~20% to 60% in that time (in my 540-street city). I intend to keep that crown as long as possible! Exercising, however, is a necessary tool to maintaining our mental health. COVER STORY. Hopefully, it just means that this is growing enough to be truly sustainable. Since then, I learned about CityStrides, a website that you can connect to a GSP tracker app like Garmin or Strava and it does the highlighting for you! Luckily, running – and walking – are not cancelled, and offer the best solution for staying active. If you manage to get 100% on your current hometown, and your local edicts allow it, how about aiming for 100% on the next town over? Getting out in the winter, if it’s cold where you are, will require appropriate clothing, but other than that, these activities don’t require any special equipment. Before I start: I blame u/sloworfast for all of this. This is an asynchronous call, so we have to put the all the code that uses this data (the response) inside this function.

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