[OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

[Stephen Hope]

In my part of Australia, we have a speed limit that applies to every
non-rural street that is not specifically signed as being another
speed - basically case (b) below.  The wording used in the law is
"built up area".  (In practice, the test for a "built up area" seems
to be "does it have street lights?".)

Unfortunately, if that is the best they could come up with for that,
then there probably isn't a good English word that covers it. Urban is
close, but has connotations of the city centre, not the suburbs or
villages.  I think it's probably going to be the best, though.

Stephen

2009/5/20 Guenther Meyer <d.s.e at sordidmusic.com>:
> hi,
>
> currently there is a discussion on the german list about tagging speed limits
> respectively different "zones". as there are implied also other things than
> maxspeed there are proposed three default zones, derived from the signs
> standing at every border crossing point:
>
> a) motorway: that's very clear, therea are no or very high limits.
> b) "city" areas with limited speed and some restrictions
> c) everything else, mostly out of town.
>
> so this questions goes primarily to the native english speakers:
> what would be the right term for a value for these zones?
>
> a) motorway? this one would be very clear I think.
> b) in_town? place? urban? it's the thing we call "geschlossene ortschaft" in
>   germany, which inludes everything from very small villages to really large
>   cities (bounded by yellow squared signs in germany).
> c) out_of_town? rural?
>
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