In Flanders, they don’t joke with strava segments.
Here is the start of the Oedelemberg, which looks like a very basic, non-special segment.
Do you know any other strava segments that are “physically highlighted” like that in your region?
Do you know any other strava segments that are “physically highlighted” like that in your region?
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That’s pretty cool. There are a couple big (Cat 1 and HC) climb segments around here that I think would be nice to half small sign for as I can never remember exactly where they start
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What do you mean you can’t remember?!? It starts 5.5 feet past the bush with the orange flowers and it ends 3.8 feet before the ‘stop ahead’ sign. Come on. Everyone knows that.
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If I make stencils how many here will buy them? I guess not many since you will have to drive to the segment start to paint them
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There’s one segment where I spray painted a small line at the start and finish 
It’s just a on a road so I’m sure nobody really notices.
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This could also be beneficial for the 0.09 mile segment that starts 5.5 feet from the gutter drain and ends at the pothole past the first house on the right.
Wouldn’t do much good because my neighbor has the KOM after forgetting to turn off his Strava speeding down the street on his way home. 
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Pretty cool. I’m guessing that they laid down those stripes as a promotion for some bike race in Belgium.
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Ive seen similar but signage and not permanent on other sportives.
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I can see how you can mark a segment on the road.
How accurately can you set a segment on Strava. Is it accurate to 1m?
Locally we’ve marked the weekly group ride route with some subtle yellow paint at each turn.
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For creating the segment from a GPS trace, it would depend upon the sample rate & moving speed of the recording device. With once-per-second sampling & hitting the start at 36kph, precision is out to ten metres. Then you need to take into account any GPS inaccuracies.
I have used google maps’ custom map driving directions function to export a .KML file of a route, fine-tuned in Google Earth if needed, reprocessed in a text editor to create a .GPX, then added timestamps & interpolation with Gotoes to upload routes & make segments that I haven’t ridden yet (with GPS) so that I’d have a target to chase. That all depends upon how well aligned GMaps’ satellite image tiles are, because sometimes its marked roadways are misaligned too. That aside, you can get incredible precision, down to a few millimetres. Way overkill in practice though.
I think this is the way to do it, here at least. In Queensland, a solid white line across a lane of traffic is synonymous with a stop sign, so if someone was to do what was done in OP’s photo, they’d effectively be installing a traffic device without government authorisation.
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Thanks for the detailed response (a bit over my head).
So if I assume someone has followed the steps you’ve outlined, does Strava keep that resolution?
It seems to. The segments match the original traces pretty well, not just for route but also for actual sample points. You can see the other end of the spectrum too, when you go to the webpage for some segments that were obviously created from a very poor GPS trace, which can waver off & on the course of the road & the altitude profile is a bit all over the place.
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I’d never thought about it until now - are segments shared by all sports? Could this be the start of a running segment and not a cycling one?
I’ve noticed that run segments don’t show up on road cycling activities, nor vice versa, not even in the “hidden segments” drop-down section on the webpage view of an activity. E-bike segments are also separate from road cycling segments. Maybe some activity types could share segments but I haven’t bothered to investigate.