Hi, recently we've had the same discussion in Czech list. The conclusion was to use 'place' for tagging areas where "city" speed limits apply.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place > The place key can also apply to an area (area) drawn around the > perimeter of the place. It not specified otherwise this can be safely > interpreted as the administrative border, area of "within closed > city" driving rules and area of the postal-address of the city. Since we couldn't find any other tag mentioning 'driving rules' or 'speed limits' we agreed to use 'place=*'. Regards, Radek Cernoch Guenther Meyer píše v St 20. 05. 2009 v 07:44 +0200: > 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
