vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/de.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/de.yml — Germany (PRD-PLATES gate L0 pilot).
+# plates/de.yml — Germany (the plates spec gate L0 pilot).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour and class claim here comes from the consolidated
 # Fahrzeug-Zulassungsverordnung (FZV) of 20 July 2023, BGBl. 2023 I Nr. 199,
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ common:
     licence: >-
       NO LICENSABLE FONT IS MANDATED. The legal object is a statutory
       Schriftmuster (a drawing), exactly as the EU dossier found for the UK and
-      Spain. Per PRD-PLATES §6 the render layer derives glyphs from the
+      Spain. Per the plates spec §6 the render layer derives glyphs from the
       statutory drawing, never from a third-party FE-Schrift TTF whose own
       licence is unstated. Germany is additionally the affirmatively favourable
       case (PD-VzKat / §5(1) UrhG: designs published inside statutory
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ common:
     source: "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/anlage_1.html  # Anlage 1 (zu § 9 Absatz 1 Satz 4), Fundstelle BGBl. 2023 I Nr. 199, S. 67 — the five shapes and the umlaut exclusion, verbatim"
 
 # Anlage 2 FZV — the SMALL, CLOSED, primary code table (contrast the district
-# list, which is not in the FZV at all). Inlined per PRD-PLATES §2.4's
+# list, which is not in the FZV at all). Inlined per the plates spec §2.4's
 # "inline table (small) or a reference (large)" rule.
 region_encoding_tables:
   anlage2_federal_and_diplomatic:
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ series:
       foreground: "#000000"
       border: { color: "#000000", note: "Anlage 4 permits black, GREEN or RED borders depending on plate type" }
       band: { side: left, color: "#003399", content: eu-stars+D, hex_basis: observed, note: "the FZV states the star-wreath ratio and cross-references Reg. 2411/98 for the 'D', but gives no RGB/RAL for the blue field" }
-      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the Stempelplakette carries the FARBIGES WAPPEN DES LANDES (§ 12 Abs. 3) — a coat of arms per Land. PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applied at write time; SUPERSEDED 2026-08-03: ALL 16 Land arms are licence-cleared in plates/_art/de-<land>/ (PD family, extmetadata-verified, ledgered) — depiction consumers may render the coloured arms in the seal. The remaining gap is the district→Land mapping (the future de-districts table) for serial-driven resolution." }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the Stempelplakette carries the FARBIGES WAPPEN DES LANDES (§ 12 Abs. 3) — a coat of arms per Land. The plates spec §3 placeholder rule applied at write time; SUPERSEDED 2026-08-03: ALL 16 Land arms are licence-cleared in plates/_art/de-<land>/ (PD family, extmetadata-verified, ledgered) — depiction consumers may render the coloured arms in the seal. The remaining gap is the district→Land mapping (the future de-districts table) for serial-driven resolution." }
       seal: { name: Stempelplakette, diameter_mm: null, content: "coloured Land arms, Land name, registration authority name, unique Druckstücknummer, and a CONCEALED security code that can only be revealed irreversibly; self-destroying on removal", source_note: "§ 12 Abs. 3 FZV + Anlage 5" }
       rear_differs: false
       display: "front and rear on motor vehicles; rear only on trailers, motorcycles and class L5e vehicles; front only on single-axle tractors (§ 12 Abs. 5 FZV)"
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ series:
         Nr. 4: in the Betriebszeitraum field, "die Zahl über dem Bindestrich" is the
         start month and "die Zahl unter dem Bindestrich" the end month, set in
         DIN 1451-2:1986-02. A single `pattern` string cannot carry a stacked
-        two-number field — this is the same schema pressure PRD-PLATES §2.2 records
+        two-number field — this is the same schema pressure the plates spec §2.2 records
         for Japan, arriving in Germany.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ series:
       pages is partial) — recorded gap, deliberately not asserted. Its own
       series rather than a variant because the DESIGN differs (an added
       operating-period field) while the serial grammar does not — the
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 test resolves cleanly. It composes with other classes:
+      the plates spec §2.3 test resolves cleanly. It composes with other classes:
       green plates (§ 10 Abs. 2), Oldtimerkennzeichen and E-Kennzeichen can
       all be issued AS seasonal plates, which means class is genuinely
       multi-valued here and the single-`class` schema cannot express the
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ series:
       table, not for this series' start. Two facts a decode table must carry,
       both verbatim from Anlage 2 (2023): BG (Bundespolizei) is "noch gültig,
       wird nicht mehr zugeteilt" — still valid, no longer assigned, exactly
-      the ended-but-on-the-road case PRD-PLATES's `ended: true` semantics
+      the ended-but-on-the-road case the plates spec's `ended: true` semantics
       exist for at the series level and that decode rows need at the row
       level. And the CONSULAR case has no code of its own: career consular
       posts carry "das Unterscheidungszeichen des Verwaltungsbezirkes am Sitz
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ series:
       foreground: "#000000"
       band: { side: left, color: "#003399", content: eu-stars+D }
     region_encoding: inline
-    region_encoding_note: "prefix decode in region_encoding_tables.anlage2_federal_and_diplomatic.diplomatic; the mission-number sub-decode is NOT authored (PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)"
+    region_encoding_note: "prefix decode in region_encoding_tables.anlage2_federal_and_diplomatic.diplomatic; the mission-number sub-decode is NOT authored (the plates spec puts diplomatic decode tables at L4)"
     sources:
       - "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/anlage_2.html  # Anlage 2 Nr. 3: '0, B oder BN — Diplomatische Vertretungen oder internationale Organisationen und in Abhängigkeit vom Status der bevorrechtigten Person', registered at Berlin or Bonn"
       - "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/__9.html  # § 9 Abs. 1 Satz 6-7"

data/data/plates/dk.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/dk.yml — Denmark (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/dk.yml — Denmark (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # WHAT IS PRIMARY HERE, AND WHAT IS NOT. Every claim in this file names its
 # layer, and the layers are:
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #      letter alphabet, the blocked two-letter combinations, and the
 #      ønskenummerplade's 1992 start.
 #
-# THE FOUR DATES THIS FILE EXISTS TO GET RIGHT (PRD-PLATES §9: era boundaries
+# THE FOUR DATES THIS FILE EXISTS TO GET RIGHT (the plates spec §9: era boundaries
 # are folklore-prone; each of these is dated to the DAY by an instrument's own
 # commencement clause, and each replaces a vaguer number in circulation):
 #
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 #     names colours in WORDS ("hvid/sort/rød") and never gives a value.
 #     Consequently EVERY hex below is `hex_basis: observed` and indicative.
 #   * NO FONT. No typeface is named or drawn anywhere in the instrument, so
-#     per PRD-PLATES §6 there is no licensable font to clear and no statutory
+#     per the plates spec §6 there is no licensable font to clear and no statutory
 #     Schriftmuster to derive glyphs from; the schematic fallback applies.
 #   * NO PUBLISHED SERIES REGISTER. § 68, stk. 3 delegates: "Skatteforvaltningen
 #     kan inddele registreringsnumre i serier efter køretøjers art eller
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
 # regler om mærkning af køretøjer med særlige nummerplader eller mærkater."
 #
 # SEPARATOR POLICY: the printed gaps on a Danish plate are GAPS, not glyphs —
-# no Danish instrument prescribes any separator character. Per PRD-PLATES §2.6
+# no Danish instrument prescribes any separator character. Per the plates spec §2.6
 # they are written as the emitted SPACE in `pattern` and as an optional " ?" in
 # every regex. SKAT's catalogue renders the five-digit car number as two groups
 # ("AF 22 454"), which is why the canonical printed form here is "LL 99 999".
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ common:
       swatches. This is the posture se.yml records for Sweden and de.yml for
       the German "grünes Kennzeichen"; it is not a defect in the pass.
     font_note: >-
-      NO TYPEFACE IS MANDATED and no statutory drawing exists. Per PRD-PLATES
+      NO TYPEFACE IS MANDATED and no statutory drawing exists. Per the plates spec
       §6 the render layer therefore has neither a licence to clear nor a
       Schriftmuster to derive from; the schematic fallback applies and the gap
       is recorded here rather than papered over with a lookalike TTF.
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ series:
         a separator character. SKAT's catalogue renders the five-digit number
         as two groups ("AF 22 454"), which is the canonical printed form used
         here; the regex accepts the space or its absence at both positions per
-        PRD-PLATES §2.6.
+        the plates spec §2.6.
     design:
       plate: { w: 504, h: 120, unit: mm }
       plate_variants:
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ series:
         registreringsafgiftsloven and lov om vægtafgift af motorkøretøjer m.v.
         This file records the REGISTERED USE, which is what the plate colour
         tracks, and does not restate rates — rates change and are outside
-        PRD-PLATES §2.5's scope.
+        the plates spec §2.5's scope.
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/dk-serial-blocks.yml"
     region_encoding_file: dk-serial-blocks.yml
     sources:
@@ -886,11 +886,11 @@ series:
         narrower than the regex above — and that grammar cannot be written.
         The human-pattern DSL spells a digit position as "9", so a LITERAL 9
         is unspellable, and any regex fixing the leading 9 fails the
-        round-trip against every pattern the DSL can express (PRD-PLATES
+        round-trip against every pattern the DSL can express (the plates spec
         §5.2). The diplomatic series escape the same trap only because their
         block starts 76/77, whose digits are not the token. `regex` is
         therefore deliberately wider than what this series issues — a match
-        is a shape hit, not a taxi claim — and per PRD-PLATES §2.7 that is
+        is a shape hit, not a taxi claim — and per the plates spec §2.7 that is
         `recall-only`, which in turn forbids a `regex_strict`. The block
         lives in `format.block` and in plates/_decode/dk-serial-blocks.yml,
         where a parse API should read it.
@@ -1434,7 +1434,7 @@ series:
       registered on ordinary yellow commercial plates; SKAT's 2012 catalogue
       still stocks the dedicated plate, so this file records the dedicated plate
       as open and flags the conflict rather than resolving it — the sources
-      disagree and PRD-PLATES §5.3 says record, do not average.
+      disagree and the plates spec §5.3 says record, do not average.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # LUFTHAVNSPLADER — airside-only plates. Included because SKAT stocks them,
@@ -1538,7 +1538,7 @@ series:
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # GAPS — what this pass could NOT establish. Recorded here because a stated
-# gap is a finding and a silent one is a defect (PRD-PLATES §5.1
+# gap is a finding and a silent one is a defect (the plates spec §5.1
 # jurisdiction-completeness).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 gaps:
@@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ gaps:
       U+002E is in _meta/separators.yml's `forgiving` set but NOT in its
       `emitted` set, so the dataset cannot spell this plate's printed form
       without either failing the lint or misrepresenting the plate by writing a
-      hyphen or a space in place of the stop. Per PRD-PLATES §2.6 that is a
+      hyphen or a space in place of the stop. Per the plates spec §2.6 that is a
       schema amendment (a `never_separator` entry, or an addition to `emitted`
       with its rationale), not a data entry, and it is out of scope for a
       jurisdiction pass. No Forsvarsministeriet instrument was located.

data/data/plates/ee.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ee.yml — Estonia (PRD-PLATES gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2). DRAFT for
+# plates/ee.yml — Estonia (the plates spec gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2). DRAFT for
 # verification: researched by an Opus L1 researcher, never applied directly.
 #
 # THE ESTONIAN SOURCE CHAIN, AND WHY THE CURRENT LAYER IS UNUSUALLY CLEAN
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 #    reads "520x113" for A1, A2, A4, A5, A8, A10, D1, E2 and A12; the drawings
 #    in Lisa 3 dimension the same 113 mm height (10,5 + 77 + 11,5 + border).
 #    The 110 mm figure that circulates for Estonia is NOT what the instrument
-#    says. This is recorded, not averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+#    says. This is recorded, not averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
 #
 # 3. THE TRANSIT PLATE'S GROUND IS "VÄRVITU" — COLOURLESS, NOT WHITE. Lisa 1
 #    gives D1 and D2 "Värvitu aluspõhi, punased sümbolid". Every other white
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
 # distinguishes them. On A1 the groups are divided by a GAP whose width is
 # specified as a field boundary in Lisa 3 (25 mm between the digit field and
 # the letter field) with no glyph — spelled here as a space, per
-# PRD-PLATES §2.6. On D1/D2 the transit plates a HYPHEN IS DRAWN, and Lisa 3
+# the plates spec §2.6. On D1/D2 the transit plates a HYPHEN IS DRAWN, and Lisa 3
 # dimensions it explicitly (44 mm wide x 11 mm high on D1) — so those patterns
 # spell a literal "-". Same dataset, two honest separators, both from drawings.
 jurisdiction: ee
@@ -159,13 +159,13 @@ common:
       Estonian-specific letters (Õ Ä Ö Ü) appear in any näidis, so unlike
       Finland's 29-glyph annex there is no Å/Ä/Ö question here — the Estonian
       repertoire as drawn is A-Z and 0-9, which is exactly the dataset's serial
-      alphabet (PRD-PLATES §2.6). This is a rare clean fit and is stated so it
+      alphabet (the plates spec §2.6). This is a rare clean fit and is stated so it
       is not mistaken for an assumption.
     glyph_standard: >-
       § 3(6): the symbol images must conform to "Eesti standardi EVS 597:2004
       lisale B" AND to the Lisa 3 drawings. EVS 597:2004 is a purchasable
       Estonian standard and its text is NOT pinned in this pass (the same
-      posture PRD-PLATES §4 takes to SAE J686) — recorded as a gap. The
+      posture the plates spec §4 takes to SAE J686) — recorded as a gap. The
       drawings in Lisa 3 are free and are what the render layer derives from.
     stroke_widths: >-
       § 3(4), verbatim: "Registreerimismärkidel kasutatavate sümbolite joonte
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ common:
       tüüp 1 (49 mm, 7 mm stroke), tüüp 2 (77 mm, 11 mm stroke), tüüp 3 (49 mm,
       7 mm stroke) and tüüp 4 (77 mm, 11 mm stroke). Tüüp 1/2 and tüüp 3/4 pair
       by height but differ in width table (Lisa 2), tüüp 3/4 being the narrower
-      condensed cut. Exactly the UK/DE/ES/FI pattern of PRD-PLATES §6: the legal
+      condensed cut. Exactly the UK/DE/ES/FI pattern of the plates spec §6: the legal
       object is a drawing plus a width table, not a licensable typeface.
     symbol_sizes: >-
       Lisa 2 Tabel 1 (heights, then widths for digits 1 / 3 / all others and
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ region_encoding_gap:
     region. Those two statements are not consistent with each other, no primary
     was located for either, and the pre-2019 office-letter mapping appears in
     that article as a TABLE. Shipping a decode table on that evidence would
-    manufacture precision the sources do not carry, and PRD-PLATES §2.4 warns
+    manufacture precision the sources do not carry, and the plates spec §2.4 warns
     in terms that a decode table which cannot state its own reliability will
     make the parse API lie (the France/SIV finding).
   what_would_close_it: >-
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ out_of_scope:
     detail: >-
       § 3(6) binds the symbol images to "Eesti standardi EVS 597:2004 lisale B"
       as well as to Lisa 3. EVS 597:2004 is sold by the Estonian Centre for
-      Standardisation and its text was not purchased for this pass. PRD-PLATES
+      Standardisation and its text was not purchased for this pass. The plates spec
       §4's SAE J686 posture applies verbatim: never quote the standard's
       dimensions except via a free instrument. Everything this file states about
       glyph geometry comes from Lisa 2 and Lisa 3, both free.
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ series:
         NO separator GLYPH is prescribed. § 3(1) puts the digits and the letters
         in two SEPARATE FIELDS and näidis 1 dimensions the boundary between them
         at 25 mm (digit field 157 max, letter field 225 max, inside a 520 mm
-        plate). Spelled here as a space per PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2. § 3(2) adds
+        plate). Spelled here as a space per the plates spec §2.6 rule 2. § 3(2) adds
         the alignment: digits flush LEFT in the digit field, letters flush RIGHT
         in the letter field, symbols at most 28 mm apart within a field.
     design:
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ series:
       recolours whatever mark the vehicle would otherwise carry. Modelled as its
       own series rather than a colour variant because the DESIGN differs and the
       issuing CLASS differs (tähtajaline registreerimine — time-limited
-      registration), which PRD-PLATES §2.3 makes sufficient. Its dimensions and
+      registration), which the plates spec §2.3 makes sufficient. Its dimensions and
       band are inherited from A1 and are a RECORDED INFERENCE: the instrument
       does not restate them for this variant. Distinct from ee-transit-d1/d2,
       which are a different class with a different format and their own drawings.
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ series:
           The same invariant PROOV and four digits as A8. The pattern spells NO
           separator because none is printed: näidis 18 is a TWO-ROW plate with
           PROOV on the upper row (215 mm field) and the digits on the lower
-          (134 mm field), which PRD-PLATES §2.6 collapses to one canonical
+          (134 mm field), which the plates spec §2.6 collapses to one canonical
           serial — the same two-printed-forms/one-mark situation fi.yml records
           for Finnish two-row plates.
     design:
@@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ series:
       CO-OCCURRENCE is forbidden, which a one-letter group cannot produce. The
       twin is therefore narrower than the law and a verifier should relax it to
       '\A(?!W)[A-Z] \d{3}\z'. Recorded rather than silently corrected because
-      the researcher-verifier split (PRD-PLATES §5.3) is the point.
+      the researcher-verifier split (the plates spec §5.3) is the point.
 
   # =========================================================================
   # L-CATEGORY. Lisa 1: B1 and B3 kirja tüüp 3, 177x101. B1 white/black,
@@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ series:
       - "https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1030/6202/2012/MKM_m45_lisa3.pdf  # näidis 16 — two-row '6269 / EO', plate 212 x 135, rows 49 mm + 9 mm + 49 mm"
     notes: >-
       THE TWO-ROW TRACTOR PLATE. Same mark as ee-agricultural-e2, different
-      blank and layout, therefore a separate series under PRD-PLATES §2.3
+      blank and layout, therefore a separate series under the plates spec §2.3
       (design differs) — and separately useful to a consumer because the printed
       form has no separator to forgive. Overlaps ee-agricultural-e2 in period
       and categories because Lisa 1 offers the two sizes as alternatives for the