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Fun video, I like his style and humor.

If you want to run all the streets in your city, there's loads of us using https://citystrides.com to track how many streets we've run (not affiliated, just a happy subscriber).

It's also a handy way of finding ways to contribute to OpenStreetMaps, you discover lots of little details that isn't mapped correctly on these runs.

I'm at a depressing 83 of 2655 streets (3.13%) in Copenhagen, Denmark. But at a whopping 86 of 446 streets (19.28%) in Malvern, England!

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Can you get any taste of the supporter features before paying? I opened an account, got 60 activities imported from Strava, I can see them individually from citystrides, but clicking on one of the "Lifemap" buttons just zooms out, and shows nothing on the map.

Even if not quite the same, you can see all of your Strava activities mapped together for free at http://statshunters.com/

I think it takes a short while for the LifeMap to update.

I made something similar for myself. I probably wouldn't have tried it had I known about CityStrides or other apps.

https://blog.dend.ro/mapping-my-walks-osrm-rust/

What kind of details have you found go not be mapped correctly? It seems a bit difficult to go from running around go looking at a map and seeing what doesn't match.

I like editing OSM after walking around and area but maybe I'll try running!

I usually plan my routes a bit before I run, so I'm aware of what streets I am supposed to be running.

I've discovered a street that wasn't mapped at all on OSM (Tanglewood Heights, Malvern), I've discovered a gated community with no public access that were marked as public (Danebury Park, Malvern), and there was another parking lot/street I couldn't access because it was behind gates.

I update the details on OSM, and then CityStrides updates their data sometime later.

As someone doing the same but for biking on https://wandrer.earth/

It supports downloading a "map" of everything I haven't done, and then on my Garmin unit I can use that as an overlay on the map. Thus when I'm out and around I can try all sideroads showing as un-biked. Then I often find streets that OSM think are bikeable, but really are not. Either behind gates, a highway etc. And fixing this makes it better for everyone.

Is there anything like citystrides but for biking?

https://wandrer.earth is similar

Thanks, I will check it out.

Wandrer.earth founder here! Happy to help you get lost :)

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