Profile used for matching
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- Script
- Latin
- Language
- Dutch, French, German
- Road edge lines
- White, solid, White, dashed
- Centre lines
- White, dashed, White, solid
- Bollards
- Plain white
- Bollard reflector
- Yellow
- Telephone poles
- Concrete
- Camera
- Gen 3, Gen 4, Small cam
- Licence plates
- White, Blue side strip
- Warning signs
- White triangle
- Landscape
- Flat, Temperate
- Road surface
- Concrete, Cobbles / bricks, Good
- Road numbers
- A, N, R, E
Country-wide 12
Plates with red text - visible through the blur
White bollards w/ yellow rectangular front reflector (white back); dark-brown bollard w/ 2 red stripes (also NL)
Denmark: Rectangular yellow reflector → Belgium.
Netherlands: Red plate text → Belgium.
A-type guardrails w/ yellow reflectors (Europe: only ES/AD/BE)
Spain: Spanish + Mediterranean → Spain.
Andorra: Pyrenees microstate → Andorra.
Concrete square poles w/ tiny holes + small metal wrappings (wrappings also in France); second type w/ oval holes
Directional signs blue or white; small BLUE sub-signs under road signs (other countries: white); km markers green (sometimes red text)
The blue sub-sign is the quick Belgium tell - neighbours use white ones.
Pedestrian sign: two horizontal dotted lines + square-headed man (FR/NL: 5-stripe zebra)
Chevrons white w/ red arrow (also NL, never FR)
Netherlands: Red plate text + concrete roads → Belgium.
Rural roads often of concrete slabs (PH/TH-like; NL almost never); all-white lines; bike lanes both sides w/ short dashed outer lines; gutters on both sides of almost every road (rare next door)
The gutters + concrete slabs combo is the fastest NL-vs-BE separator.
Philippines: Gutters both sides + European context → Belgium.
Thailand: Gutters both sides + European context → Belgium.
Red-brick houses (N+W); south = grey stone, French look; 2nd-most blurred houses after Germany
Orange signposts/sign backs - unique to Belgium; street signs short & tall, often w/ municipality name (NL signs long & low); town entry = white w/ black border + bold name; priority signs = small orange diamonds; bus stops = yellow posts + yellow shelter roofs
Traffic lights on black-yellow or red-white striped poles; red H hydrant signs (also Germany)
Rare red car w/ long antenna (much commoner in Ukraine); Gen4 smallcam
Regional 4
3 languages: Dutch/Flemish (z, w, ee, ij) → Flanders (north); French (ç é è à) → Wallonia (south); German (ä ü ö ß) → Ostbelgien; Brussels bilingual FR+NL
Flanders vs Wallonia: bus-stop top white (Flanders/Brussels) vs yellow (Wallonia); warning signs thick red border w/o white rim (Flanders, = Spanish style) vs w/ white rim (Wallonia); traffic-light poles yellow-black = Flanders only, red-white = Wallonia/Brussels
Area codes: 1-2 digits after the 0 (04 = mobile); big-city street-sign designs learnable (Bruges doesn't name the municipality!)
Flat NW (coast) → hillier SE; Ardennes = steep hills, dense forest, valleys (spills into FR/LU/DE); coastal plain = polders (NL-confusable!); coast lined by an apartment 'wall' + dunes
Specific spots 1
Baarle-Hertog (NE of Antwerp): BE/NL enclave patchwork - borders marked with white crosses, street signs reveal the country