Key:urban

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Public-images-osm logo.svg urban
Vienna Convention road sign E7b-V1.svg
Description
Indicates whether the road is inside the built-up area.
Group: restrictions
Used on these elements
should not be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Requires
Useful combination
See also
Status: in usePage for proposal

This tag indicates whether, for the purposes of road traffic rules, a highway is located inside of city limits.

Values

  • Vienna Convention road sign E7-symbol.svg urban=yes: the road is inside the built-up area (within city limits of some place)
  • Vienna Convention road sign E8-symbol.svg urban=no: the road is outside the built-up area (not within city limits of any place)

How to map

In most cases, you need to tag zone:traffic=* and you do not need to tag urban=*, because the correct value of urban=* can be derived from the value of zone:traffic=*. For example, zone:traffic=*:urban automatically means urban=yes and zone:traffic=*:rural automatically means urban=no.

However, for some values of zone:traffic=* (e.g. zone:traffic=DE:motorway), the value of urban=* is not obvious, and in this case you can tag urban=* explicitly.