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....@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? > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
