Key:zone:traffic
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Indicates urban/rural/other default set of traffic rules applies to this road. ![]() |
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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>
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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=* | Default maxspeed=* |
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Motorway (autosnelweg, autoroute), outside the built-up area[BE 1] | BE:motorway | 120 km/h |
Non-motorway, in the Flemish Region, outside the built-up area (buiten de bebouwde kom) | BE-VLG:rural | usually 70 km/h |
Non-motorway, in the Flemish Region, inside the built-up area (binnen de bebouwde kom) | BE-VLG:urban | usually 50 km/h |
Non-motorway, in the Walloon Region, outside the built-up area (sise hors agglomération) | BE-WAL:rural | usually 90 km/h |
Non-motorway, in the Walloon Region, inside the built-up area (dans une agglomération) | BE-WAL:urban | usually 50 km/h |
Non-motorway, in the Brussels-Capital Region, outside the built-up area | BE-BRU:rural | usually 70 km/h |
Non-motorway, in the Brussels-Capital Region, inside the built-up area | BE-BRU:urban | usually 30 km/h |
- ↑ Belgian motorways cannot be inside the built-up area. See the wiki page for zone:traffic=BE:motorway for more information.
Germany
Situation | zone:traffic=* | Default maxspeed=* |
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Motorway (Autobahn)[DE 1] | DE:motorway[DE 2] | none |
Non-motorway, outside the built-up area (außerhalb geschlossener Ortschaften) | DE:rural | usually 100 km/h |
Non-motorway, inside the built-up area (innerhalb geschlossener Ortschaften) | DE:urban | usually 50 km/h |
- ↑ German motorways can be either outside or inside the built-up area. The traffic rules are the same in both cases. See the wiki page for zone:traffic=DE:motorway for more information.
- ↑ zone:traffic=DE:motorway is implicit for every highway=motorway in Germany.
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=* | Default maxspeed=* |
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In the European part of the country, outside the built-up area (buiten de bebouwde kom) | NL:rural | usually 80 km/h (motorways: 130 km/h, roads for motor vehicles: 100 km/h) |
In the European part of the country, inside the built-up area (binnen de bebouwde kom) | NL:urban | usually 50 km/h |
On Bonaire, outside the built-up area | BQ-BO:rural | 60 km/h |
On Bonaire, inside the built-up area | BQ-BO:urban | 40 km/h |
On Sint Eustatius, outside the built-up area | BQ-SE:rural | 60 km/h |
On Sint Eustatius, inside the built-up area | BQ-SE:urban | 40 km/h |
On Saba, outside the built-up area | BQ-SA:rural | 60 km/h |
On Saba, inside the built-up area | BQ-SA:urban | 30 km/h |
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