Key:zone:traffic

zone:traffic
Description
Indicates urban/rural/other default set of traffic rules applies to this road.
Group: Restrictions
Used on these elements
Documented values: 11
Requires
highway=*
Useful combination
zone:maxspeed=* source:maxspeed=* maxspeed=*
Status: in use
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This tag indicates which set of implicit traffic rules apply to a particular road (rules not set explicitly by signs). Each value of this tag is associated with a different set of default traffic rules.

Because default traffic rules vary from country to country, values are country-specific (or region-specific if traffic regulations vary within the country). The traffic regulations of most countries distinguish at least two zones: urban (inside the built-up area / city limits) and rural (outside the built-up area / city limits).

All values follow the format <ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code or ISO 3166-2 region code>:<rural or urban or something else>.

This tag is based on the trafficzone proposal, which is still in draft status but widely accepted in Germany.

Values

Belgium

Since the Sixth Belgian State Reform, the regional governments can and do set separate default speed limits, but only on non-motorways.

Situation	zone:traffic=*
Motorway	BE:motorway
Non-motorway, in the Flemish Region, outside the built-up area	BE-VLG:rural
Non-motorway, in the Flemish Region, inside the built-up area	BE-VLG:urban
Non-motorway, in the Walloon Region, outside the built-up area	BE-WAL:rural
Non-motorway, in the Walloon Region, inside the built-up area	BE-WAL:urban
Non-motorway, in the Brussels-Capital Region, outside the built-up area	BE-BRU:rural
Non-motorway, in the Brussels-Capital Region, inside the built-up area	BE-BRU:urban

Germany

Situation	zone:traffic=*
Outside the built-up area	DE:rural
Inside the built-up area	DE:urban

Various other values are also currently in use in Germany, which partially overlap with the zones defined above. This should be resolved such that every road is in a unique zone. Note that other traffic rules can be mapped with separate tags.

Netherlands

Each Caribbean island has separate traffic rules.

Situation	zone:traffic=*
In the European part of the country, outside the built-up area	NL:rural
In the European part of the country, inside the built-up area	NL:urban
On Bonaire, outside the built-up area	BQ-BO:rural
On Bonaire, inside the built-up area	BQ-BO:urban
On Sint Eustatius, outside the built-up area	BQ-SE:rural
On Sint Eustatius, inside the built-up area	BQ-SE:urban
On Saba, outside the built-up area	BQ-SA:rural
On Saba, inside the built-up area	BQ-SA:urban

See also

• zone:maxspeed=* - Used to mark streets which are part of a speed limit zone
• traffic_sign=city_limit - Traffic sign typically used to mark the boundary between urban and rural zones
• Default speed limits for routing
• Default access restrictions for routing