Every When does a street count as walked?
In Every Street a street counts as walked once you’ve covered 90 % of its length, over one walk or many. Your phone compares every GPS point of your walk with the city’s streets: a point covers the parts of a street within 20 metres that run in the direction you’re walking. Districts are measured the same way, by the share of their street length you’ve walked.
From GPS points to streets
Your phone records a GPS point every few seconds while you walk. Every Street keeps the points that are accurate enough (within 30 m) and fills short gaps between them, so a moment of poor signal doesn’t leave a hole in your walk.
Every street in the city pack is divided into sample points every 10 metres. A sample point is covered when one of your GPS points lies within 20 metres of it and you were walking in roughly the street’s direction (within 45°). That second condition is what keeps a cross street from counting just because you walked past its end.
All of this happens on your phone, against the city’s streets stored there as a city pack. Nothing is uploaded.
The 90 % rule
Covered sample points add up, walk after walk:
- A street counts as walked once you’ve covered 90 % of its length. Streets are what you see in the app: all the pieces with the same name that belong together, from one end to the other.
- Pieces of streets keep their partial progress, and the map draws exactly the parts you’ve walked.
- Dual carriageways count once. A boulevard with two separate roadways is one street, and walking one side credits the other.
Districts and tiers
Streets add up to districts, measured by length, partial streets included. Each district earns a tier as its walked share grows:
| Tier | Walked share of the district’s street length |
|---|---|
| Discovered | more than 0 % |
| Bronze | 25 % |
| Silver | 50 % |
| Gold | 75 % |
| Conquered | 90 % |
Each city uses its own words for its districts: Bezirke and Ortsteile in Berlin, arrondissements and quartiers in Paris, boroughs and neighborhoods in New York City. See your city’s districts on its city page.
What doesn’t count
- Rides. Driving, cycling, bus, tram and trains: when the motion sensors or your speed say you’re not walking, that part of the track counts toward nothing.
- Planned routes. A route drawn in a route planner has no timestamps, so it can’t be imported: only walks you actually made count.
- Streets outside the city. Only streets inside the city pack’s boundary count toward that city; progress is saved separately for every city.
Walks you made before
Walks recorded by another app count by the same rules once you import them: Apple Health, Health Connect, a Strava export, your Google Timeline or GPX, TCX and FIT files.
Questions
Why 90 % and not 100 %?
GPS on a phone is often a few metres off, and the very ends of a street, at a busy junction or a dead end, are easy to miss by a step. 90 % means a street you really walked counts, without making you stand in the middle of every crossing.
Do I have to walk a street in one go?
No. Progress is saved per piece of street, so a street you walk half of today and the rest next month counts once the two together reach 90 %.
Does a bus, tram or bike ride count?
No. When your phone’s motion sensors report driving or cycling, or you move faster than walking pace, those parts of the track count toward nothing.
Does a street with two carriageways count twice?
No. A street with two separate roadways counts once, and walking one side credits the other.
Walk your city with Every Street
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