Plate Atlas - Plate Spotting

Plate Atlas is a life list for licence plates — the birdwatcher's checklist, applied to the ovals and blue bands you see on the road. Spot a plate, tap once, and watch a map of Europe fill in behind you. THE ONE RULE • Abroad, a sighting is the country and nothing more. A German car passes, you tap Germany, you are done. • At home it goes one level deeper, because you already know one town from the next. Set your home country and its plates offer a second, optional step: which city or district. • Optional means optional. Skip it and the country still counts. LOG IT THE WAY YOU READ IT • Search matches the name or the code on the plate. Type "pl" and Poland comes up; type "kr" while picking a Polish city and Kraków does. • Accents are optional too — "krakow" finds Kraków, "munchen" finds München. • Already collected? The row says so, and logging it again keeps your original date rather than overwriting it. THE MAP • One tile per country, laid out in roughly its real position — the shape of Europe, readable at a glance and at arm's length in a moving car. • Collected countries fill in; your home country keeps a ring around it. • A second layer swaps the countries for your home country's district codes. • No basemap, no tiles to download, nothing to wait for. WHAT IS IN THE ATLAS • All 42 countries of continental Europe. • District lists for the seven whose plates actually encode one — Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia and Switzerland — 411 codes in total, covering the cities and districts you are realistically going to see. Countries whose plates are nationally issued, France and Spain among them, are country-level only, which is exactly what their plates tell you. FIX IT AFTERWARDS • Every entry is a switch: on adds it, off removes it. No confirmation dialog, and an undo in the toast. • Mark a whole trip at once and back-date it, which is how anyone actually catches up after five countries in a weekend. • The same screen handles countries and your home country's cities, with the same control. MORE THAN ONE COLLECTOR • Several profiles on one device, so two people sharing a car keep separate lists. • Switching profile swaps the whole collection. No sign-in, no email address, no profile of you anywhere.