--- a/src/main/java/org/openmaptiles/layers/Transportation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/openmaptiles/layers/Transportation.java
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_SERVICE, 13),
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_MINOR, 13),
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_RACEWAY, 12),
-      entry(FieldValues.CLASS_TERTIARY, 11),
+      // OpenRydr: tertiary at z9 (stock 11) so a town's street grid isn't holey at overview zoom.
+      entry(FieldValues.CLASS_TERTIARY, 9),
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_BUSWAY, 11),
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_BUS_GUIDEWAY, 11),
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_SECONDARY, 9),
@@ -208,6 +209,18 @@
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_TRUNK, 6),
       entry(FieldValues.CLASS_MOTORWAY, 4)
     );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * OpenRydr: the OSM {@code maxspeed} tag for the app's speed-limit badge — EXPLICIT mph values only,
+   * normalized to "55 mph". The app ignores everything else (a bare US "35" is usually a mis-tagged
+   * mph value, so it is never converted from km/h), so dropping it here keeps those lines merging.
+   * maxspeed:advisory is deliberately NOT used.
+   */
+  private static String maxspeed(String value) {
+    if (value == null) return null;
+    var m = java.util.regex.Pattern.compile("^(\\d{1,3})\\s*mph$").matcher(value.trim().toLowerCase(java.util.Locale.ROOT));
+    return m.matches() ? m.group(1) + " mph" : null;
   }
 
   /** Returns a value for {@code surface} tag constrained to a small set of known values from raw OSM data. */
@@ -535,6 +548,12 @@
         .setAttrWithMinzoom(Fields.SERVICE, service, 12)
         .setAttrWithMinzoom(Fields.ONEWAY, nullIfInt(element.isOneway(), 0), 12)
         .setAttrWithMinzoom(Fields.SURFACE, surface(coalesce(element.surface(), element.tracktype())), 12)
+        // OpenRydr: z13+ only (the app reads it at nav zoom, which overzooms z14), so lower zooms merge as stock.
+        .setAttrWithMinzoom("maxspeed", maxspeed(element.source().getTag("maxspeed") instanceof Object v ? v.toString() : null), 13)
+        // OpenRydr: road name + ref at z13+ for the app's Record Ride current-road badge, read from these same
+        // rendered lines as maxspeed (stock keeps names only in transportation_name, label lines). z13+ only.
+        .setAttrWithMinzoom("name", element.name() == null || element.name().isBlank() ? null : element.name(), 13)
+        .setAttrWithMinzoom("ref", element.ref() == null || element.ref().isBlank() ? null : element.ref(), 13)
         .setMinPixelSize(0) // merge during post-processing, then limit by size
         .setSortKey(element.zOrder())
         .setMinZoom(minzoom);
@@ -577,7 +596,8 @@
     if ("pier".equals(element.manMade())) {
       minzoom = 13;
     } else if (isResidentialOrUnclassified(highway)) {
-      minzoom = 12;
+      // OpenRydr: residential/unclassified at z9 (stock 12) — visible by ~z9.5 (maptiler.md target).
+      minzoom = 9;
     } else {
       String baseClass = highwayClass.replace("_construction", "");
       minzoom = switch (baseClass) {