Almost all data for Belgium is missing

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The file for Belgium is very tiny (only 1 credit's worth of data).  It's the same for "Belgium (land mass)" too, and for every file from each month of 2025.  The file seems to contain the admin boundary for the country only, but none of the states or counties.  I read in the Checker News forum that PGC updated the Polygons for Belgium in March 2025 so obviously the data is available somewhere, but where?

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It's not obvious what data you can't find. You can always use the search field, it includes both names and IDs of polygons.

Here is a link showing Belgium admin level 2, 4 and 7, using the latest data-set: https://osm-boundaries.com/l/c4e15f6a753e6db7bac34c8b47f745b70626bb33


You can also right click a country and click Tools -> Get admin level coverage and you will get a report in the console (bottom of the map) of the coverage per admin level.

If the data exists in OSM and the polygons are in a working state, they are included in OSM-Boundaries. If you don't find data, you need to be more explicit about what you are looking for.

Note that the tree is always automatically generated. Basically the site builds a hierarchy of polygons fitting inside other polygons. OSM-Boundaries is just a presentation layer for the data in OSM itself. The root isn't guaranteed to be a list of countries, this all depends on the data in OSM. Depending on what you look for it can be useful to change Boundary from All to Administrative in the settings wheel above the tree view.

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Magnus
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It's not obvious what data you can't find. You can always use the search field, it includes both names and IDs of polygons.

Here is a link showing Belgium admin level 2, 4 and 7, using the latest data-set: https://osm-boundaries.com/l/c4e15f6a753e6db7bac34c8b47f745b70626bb33


You can also right click a country and click Tools -> Get admin level coverage and you will get a report in the console (bottom of the map) of the coverage per admin level.

If the data exists in OSM and the polygons are in a working state, they are included in OSM-Boundaries. If you don't find data, you need to be more explicit about what you are looking for.

Note that the tree is always automatically generated. Basically the site builds a hierarchy of polygons fitting inside other polygons. OSM-Boundaries is just a presentation layer for the data in OSM itself. The root isn't guaranteed to be a list of countries, this all depends on the data in OSM. Depending on what you look for it can be useful to change Boundary from All to Administrative in the settings wheel above the tree view.

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well I just tried again and it worked.  I have no idea what I was doing wrong yesterday, but now the file includes all the data for Belgium.   Thanks.