id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
22375	boundaries.osm - add Scotland and Flanders, Wallonia, Brussels	westnordost	team	"Added subdivision Scotland (GB-SCT) and all subdivisions of Belgium - Flanders (BE-VLG), Wallonia (BE-WAL), Brussels (BE-BRU).

**Guideline followed in terms of precision:** Settlements and at least the more important roads must be on the right side of the border.

**Rationale:**

1. Scotland has some autonomy that leads to some rules and regulations being different from the rest of the United Kingdom that may be relevant to OpenStreetMap data. For example, the speed limits are different. (See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Default_speed_limits)

2. The languages spoken and official in Belgium are different depending on the subdivision. Dutch in Flanders (and Brussels), French in Wallonia (and Brussels). This is relevant for OpenStreetMap data, as in Brussels, (traffic) signs usually are multilingual while in Flanders and Wallonia, they are not.

3. The different regions in Belgium have some different rules and regulations. for example, the speed limits are different. (See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Default_speed_limits)

**Motivation:**

If you wonder why I contribute here at all, read on. (TLDR: boundaries.osm is being used by a couple more OSM-related projects to infer country-specific metadata):

The [https://github.com/westnordost/countryboundaries countryboundaries] Java library uses this file as default input data. That library is at least used by StreetComplete and Vespucci to infer some country-specific metadata that helps users to input the correct data (maintained at github repo [https://github.com/streetcomplete/countrymetadata/tree/master/data countrymetadata].
This is especially handy for things like displaying which languages for street sign names must/should be entered, e.g. in Brussels Dutch and French, but many other too (see [https://github.com/streetcomplete/countrymetadata/blob/master/data/officialLanguages.yml officalLanguages.yml]).

Additionally, this file is at least used by GraphHopper to also infer some country-specific metadata, such as speed limits.

Maybe specifically [https://github.com/westnordost/countryboundaries countryboundaries] or [https://github.com/streetcomplete/countrymetadata countrymetadata] would be interesting to you JOSM developers too, let me know."	enhancement	new	minor		Core