Regulatory compliance

1. Territorial scope

Speedix is distributed and operated exclusively within French territory. The app is not offered on any other market and its data covers the French road network only.

Its entire design therefore answers to French road safety law, the applicable provisions of which are set out in section 3.

2. Classification of the service

Speedix is a driving assistance app. It falls neither within the category of detectors, nor within that of enforcement device warning systems.

This classification rests on a difference in kind. A warning device identifies a specific device, at a specific location. A driving assistance app flags an extended stretch of road calling for vigilance, without specifying its content or its exact location.

3. Applicable regulatory framework

Three texts govern this activity in France:

• Article R413-15 of the Highway Code
  Prohibits possessing, transporting and using devices that signal the presence of enforcement equipment.
• Decree No. 2012-3 of 3 January 2012
  Setting out various road safety measures, it defines the applicable regime.
• Memorandum of understanding of 28 July 2011
  Concluded between the public authorities and industry participants, it establishes the principle of extended zone flagging and sets its standard lengths.

Speedix operates within this framework by distributing zones only, with lengths at least equal to the distances set out in that memorandum.

4. Design principles

The following principles govern the app and can be verified directly in use:

• Extended zone flagging. The map contains no point markers: each zone is drawn as an extended trace following the shape of the road.
• Approximate distances. The app communicates deliberately broad steps, to the exclusion of any distance expressed to the metre.
• Uniform presentation. Every situation within a given category shares the same icon, the same label and the same voice announcement.
• Limited scope of reports. User reports cover accidents, roadworks and hazards on the road exclusively.
• Settings at category level. Display preferences act only at the level of the categories presented, with no ability to isolate a particular situation.

5. Extent of the zones flagged

Speedix works in stretches of road rather than locations. Each zone extends on both sides of the stretch concerned, so that no particular location can be inferred from it, neither at the entry nor at the exit.

Their length is matched to the road environment and follows the standard distances:

These figures are minimums. Where the road configuration warrants prolonged vigilance, the zone is extended and is under no circumstances shortened.

6. Categories presented to the user

The app exposes four categories, to the exclusion of any other:

• Danger zone
  A generic category covering zones that may contain an enforcement device (speed or traffic light check), without distinguishing between them.
• Carpool lane
  A traffic rule that is the subject of road signage.
• Dangerous level crossing
  Railway infrastructure identified as accident-prone.
• Risk zone
  A temporary zone whose content is liable to change.

The second and third categories describe physical or regulatory realities of the road, marked by signs and present in all mapping products. The other two remain deliberately generic.

This genericity is applied end to end: icon, label and voice announcement are identical for every situation within a given category.

7. Processing of the data distributed

The locations processed are converted into extended zones prior to any distribution to the app.

The app never exposes the precise location to the user, who at no point has information more precise than the displayed zone.

8. Incidents and user reports

Speedix distributes two other families of information, unrelated to enforcement equipment:

• Traffic incidents
  Accidents, stationary vehicles and road hazards.
• User reports
  Limited to three categories: accident, roadworks, hazard on the road.

These categories do not fall under the specific regulations for speed enforcement devices, and their precise location is displayed to the user.

9. Road safety purpose

The purpose of Speedix is to make drivers slow down on stretches of road where vigilance is warranted and to inform them of the dangers present on their route.

Extended zone flagging serves that purpose directly: it encourages calm driving across the whole stretch concerned, where a pinpoint indication would only prompt a brief slowdown followed by acceleration.

10. Data sources and licences

The Speedix danger-zone database is built from the following sources:

• data.gouv.fr
  List of fixed speed cameras in France, published by the French Ministry of the Interior on data.gouv.fr, edition of 30 December 2025, under the Etalab Open Licence 2.0.
• Lufop.net
  Point-of-interest data made available by Lufop.net, under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike 4.0 licence (CC BY-SA 4.0) and ODbL 1.0.
• OpenStreetMap
  Road geometries © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under ODbL 1.0.

In accordance with these licences, the derived zone database produced by Speedix, resulting from the conversion of locations into the extended zones described in section 7, is made available under the same terms. A machine-readable copy may be obtained upon request addressed to contact@speedix.pro.

11. Contact

Any question relating to this document or to the compliance of the app, as well as any request from a competent authority, may be addressed to: contact@speedix.pro.