About Strava Maps

About our Maps

The static and interactive maps in the Strava feed and on the activity details page are provided by Mapbox, with the data for roads, places, parks, points of interest, and trails sourced from OpenStreetMap.

Strava provides two maps for viewing your activities on the Strava website: Standard and Satellite. Satellite imagery is sourced from DigitalGlobe, NASA, and Mapbox.

Selected map thumbnails on the Strava website and in the Strava iOS and Android apps use data from ©OpenStreetMap and are licensed under the ODbL. Strava is committed to actively contributing to OpenStreetMap. View ODbL Copyright Details.

Map Feedback

Strava utilizes OpenStreetMap, an open-source project that distributes geographical data for the entire world, alongside our own heat/popularity and other unique data, to create both the visual experience for maps as well as to help inform routing decisions and points of interest shown on the map. For more on this, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strava. It costs nothing to contribute to OSM, which means that you can help contribute to better geo data on Strava and make for a more informed, safer, and delightful routing experience for your fellow athletes!

How do I make an edit?

1. If you do not already have one, create a free account at OpenStreetMap.
2. Browse to the area you want to (and are authorized to) edit by using either the search bar or panning the map. For example, here is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco:
   
   
3. Hit the Edit button in the top left (the iD editor is the simplest and can be done directly in your browser)
4. You will now see a view of clickable features. The OSM features that are most important to Strava are called “ways” and "features". These are what you’ll want to edit!
   1. Ways can be thought of as stretches of road or trail that we can make routes with. Select the way you want to edit, and you will see a number of editable properties:
      
      
   2. Features are points of interest, such as public restrooms, parking, or cafes where you might make a pit stop. Edit or add a point in order to contribute to Points of Interest on Strava. You can add details to give other athletes more information about the Point of Interest.
      
5. Preview, and then save your changes.
   

Specific Editable Properties

There are a number of relevant properties of these ways that you can now edit. Some of the common ones include:

• Access: You can mark roads as being part of private property or being only open (or closed) to foot or bicycle traffic.
• Bike Lanes
• Speed Limits
• Surface Type

How quickly will I see my changes reflected in Strava?

We strive to bring in new updates from OSM in a timely manner while still ensuring fairness, correctness, and completeness of data.

We work with a company called Mapbox to provide most of the actual maps that athletes see, including those that are used to draw and display Routes. You can read more about what goes into those maps here. Like Strava, Mapbox uses OSM, though the rate of ingestion of new changes in OSM does not always line up between the two. This means that what you may see on the maps (from Mapbox) may be slightly different than what actually gets drawn when you attempt to make a Route inside Strava, especially for very recent OSM changes.

OSM relies on many contributors, not just yours. In addition, OSM and Mapbox are just some of the data sources that Strava integrates. As a result, changes you make may not be reflected exactly the way you may expect them on Strava. For example, if you mark a road as closed to bicycle traffic, that road may still be included in suggested cycling routes if other data sources indicate that the road is open to bicycles.