Questions and answers

Everything you do on foot on a street or path: walks, hikes, runs, trail runs, snowshoeing and wheelchair activities, as Strava labels them. Rides, skating, skiing, rowing and indoor workouts do not count. An activity also needs a GPS track: a walk logged by a watch or tracker without GPS has no route, so there is nothing to put on the map.

Strava counts every metre you moved. Streets Done counts every street once. Walk the same road out and back and it counts once; walk a road you already did last month and it counts zero. A typical walk in a familiar area adds somewhere between nothing and its full length, and that is the point: the only way to score is to go somewhere new.

Every road and path in OpenStreetMap that you can walk on: streets, lanes, footpaths, tracks through parks and along water. A pavement or cycle path that runs along a road is treated as part of that road, so a street is one street, not three. Left out: motorways, private roads, paths marked as not accessible on foot, main roads where pedestrians must use the separate path alongside, driveways, parking aisles and unnamed service roads, paths on closed grounds such as sports fields, school yards, allotments and military sites, and the little unnamed paths between houses (shorter than 150 metres) unless they run through a park, wood or other green space. Roads are cut into pieces of at most a hundred metres, and a piece counts once most of it has been walked.

Your GPS track is sampled every five metres and each point is assigned to the nearest walkable road within twenty metres. A road counts when the points cover at least sixty percent of it. Passing a side street on a corner does not count it; walking most of it does. GPS is not perfect, so an occasional road may be missed or picked up wrongly; the map shows exactly what was counted.

Map data is loaded per region, and only once someone walks there. A walk in a new region puts that region in the queue; it is loaded overnight, when the server has room, and the walk is processed automatically afterwards. You do not need to do anything.

After connecting Strava, all your past walks are fetched. Strava limits how fast that can go, so it comes down to a few hundred walks a day. When everything is in, you get one email with the summary. After that, every new walk gets its own email as soon as it is processed, if you want it (see Settings).

No. There is no leaderboard and no public profile. Only you can see your map, your areas and your progress. Strava also does not allow apps to show your data to anyone else, and Streets Done follows that.

Press and hold the road on the map (a plain tap does nothing, so you cannot report something by accident while walking) and choose "Is this wrong?". You say what is wrong (no longer exists, not accessible, other) and whether it concerns this section or the whole road. The road stops counting right away; your percentages follow within a minute. No need to go to OpenStreetMap. Made a mistake? Tap "Undo" right there. Later on, a road you reported stays visible as a thin dotted line: press and hold it to put it back. Your reports are also listed under Reports. If the map is later corrected in OpenStreetMap, the report expires by itself.

Where you have been today. Tap the location button on the map and, as long as the page is open, the map follows you and draws a yellow line behind you, so you can see at a glance which streets you already did on this walk. It lives only in your browser (nothing is sent anywhere), survives closing and reopening the page, and fades after twelve hours. It is not a recording: Strava does that, and the walk only counts once Strava sends it in.

Yes: the full-screen button at the top right of the map. And if you have rotated the map, a tap on the compass puts north back on top.

Yes. Map data is refreshed from OpenStreetMap about once a month. A road that changes or disappears never costs you kilometres you already walked: your score can only go up. New roads show up as new ground to cover.

On the Strava page in the app. Disconnecting stops new walks from coming in; what you already walked stays. You can also revoke access from your Strava settings, under My Apps, which has the same effect.