Tag:highway=living street
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| Description: Living streets - compared to residential streets - have special regulations like lower speed limits, special parking restrictions, special traffic rules, ... |
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Rationale
Living streets - compared to residential streets - have special regulations like lower speed limits, special parking restrictions, special traffic rules, ...
There are many such "living streets" in Germany ("Verkehrsberuhigter Bereich") and similar concepts seem to apply elsewhere. Simply tagging them with something like highway=residential, max_speed=7, motorcar=yes, motorcycle=yes, bicycle=yes, ... still loses information and is annoying to do on areas that have lots of such streets. Renderers might want to render living_streets differently than residential streets, or show them at different zoomlevels than residential ones.
How to Map
| To map living streets nothing else than a simple way is required. Add the highway=living_street tag to it and name the street with name=*. for example:
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Rendering
Like a residential street, but filled with light gray.
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National Specialities
| Country | Name | maxspeed= | Special traffic rules | Reference |
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| Austria | Wohnstraße | Schrittgeschwindigkeit<ref>STVO § 76b</ref> | no regular traffic; bicycles=yes; exceptions e.g. for fire brigade or waste disposal | Wikipedia (de) |
| Belarus | Жилая зона Zhilaya zona | 20 | Въезд только для местных жителей. Пешеходы имеют преимущество. Транзитный проезд запрещен.
Only for inhabitants. Give way to pedestrians and bicyclists. No transit traffic. | |
| Belgium | Woonerf/Zone résidentielle | 20 | Drivers must give way to pedestrians; pedestrians can use the entire road; special rules for parking a car | Wikipedia (nl) |
| Czech Republic | Obytná zóna | 20 | doesn't exist yet | |
| Finland | Pihakatu | 20 | Favors pedestrians, cars must give way. Parking allowed only on marked places. | Wikipedia (Fi) |
| Germany | Verkehrsberuhigter Bereich (or Spielstraße) | 7 (Schrittgeschwindigkeit) | Give way to pedestrians and bicyclists. Parking only allowed in marked places. If exiting the "Spielstraße" you have to give way (yield sign normally not present) | Wikipedia (de) |
| Iceland | Vistgata | 15 (or walking speed if pedestrians are nearby) | Give way to pedestrians. Parking only allowed in marked spaces, except for bicycles. Pedestrians should not unreasonably hinder motor traffic. | |
| Netherlands | Woonerf | 15 | Some different traffic rules in favor of pedestrians and bicyclists | Wikipedia (Netherlands) |
| Norway | Gatetun | 8 | ||
| Poland | Strefa zamieszkania | 20 | As in Germany. | Wikipedia (pl) |
| Switzerland | Begegnungszone | 20 | ? | Wikipedia (de) |
| Spain | Calle residencial | 20 | Identified by traffic signal S-28. Indica las zonas de circulación especialmente acondicionadas que están destinadas en primer lugar a los peatones y en las que se aplican las normas especiales de circulación siguientes: la velocidad máxima de los vehículos está fijada en 20 kilómetros por hora y los conductores deben conceder prioridad a los peatones. Los vehículos no pueden estacionarse más que en los lugares designados por señales o por marcas. Los peatones pueden utilizar toda la zona de circulación. Los juegos y los deportes están autorizados en ella. Los peatones no deben estorbar inútilmente a los conductores de vehículos. | ? |
| Swedan | Gårdsgata | Walking speed (10?) | Favors pedestrians, cars must give way. Parking allowed only on marked places. When exiting a "Gårdsgata" you have to give way (yield sign normally not present) | Wikipedia (Sv) |
| United Kingdom | Home Zone | 10-15mph | ? | Wikipedia, List of Home Zones |
Remarks
Tempo-30-Zone (Germany)
Please note: a "Tempo-30-Zone" - where the main special regulation is the 30km/h speed limit itself - is NOT a living street. These streets should be tagged with highway=residential, maxspeed=30.
Spielstraße (Germany)
In common language many people name as "Spielstraße" what is named "Verkehrsberuhigter Bereich" by law (Straßenverkehrsordnung StVO). The term "Spielstraße" is not used in the StVO, but can be found in additional regulations (Verwaltungsvorschriften). It names a rarely used combination of a common exclusion of every traffic (Verbot für Fahrzeuge aller Art, the common red circle, white center), combined with a small symbol below for playing children <ref>Zeichen 250 & 1010-10</ref>.
The max. speed of 7 km/h for "Schrittgeschwindigkeit" ist not named within the StVO, but resulted from different judgements, most within the range of 7 up to 12 km/h. It may be even as low as 4 km/h, while all are significantly below 20 km/h.
