GENERAL RULES ACROSS SWEDEN Where no local regulation exists, the app now answers from the general rules of the Road Traffic Ordinance and nationwide road data: bans in and within 10 m of a junction, before pedestrian crossings, at bus stops, on priority roads and in tunnels are shown even where no sign stands. Where there is no rule at all, the card says "General rules apply" and asks you to check the sign on site. The app never says a spot is free without a rule behind it. CLEANING DAYS AND MONTHLY RULES Bans that apply on a given day of the month – "the 7th" or "the first non-holiday Tuesday of the month" – are now read as time windows. The app says which day the ban applies next and answers "Allowed now" in between. Regulations that have expired or are temporarily suspended are no longer shown. CLEARER ANSWERS TO "CAN I PARK HERE?" The card first says whether you can park right now, then why. A ban that does not apply right now reads "Allowed now — the ban is not in force right now". SIGN POLES The sign reader reads poles with several supplementary plates more accurately: a permit plate with its own hours no longer lends those hours to the whole pole, "Other times" is worked out from the plate beside it, and the minute a period ends is never counted as free. Ända fram — all the way there.

THE LAW'S RULES NEAR CROSSINGS AND LEVEL CROSSINGS Within 10 metres before a pedestrian crossing, a cycle crossing or a cycle passage, and within 30 metres of a level crossing, parking is forbidden by the Swedish traffic ordinance, even where there is no sign. The app now answers "Not allowed here" at those places and names the rule. The places come from Trafikverket's national road database. BETTER ANSWERS TO "CAN I PARK HERE?" Rules that were placed in the wrong municipality have been removed. Places only permit holders may use now read "Permit holders only". The card and the line on the map now point to the same side of the street, and a rule for one side only has that side marked on the map. Ända fram — all the way there.

THE MAP SHOWS WHICH SIDE OF THE STREET A RULE APPLIES TO A rule that applies to one side of the street is now drawn along that side's kerb, and a rule for both sides as a wider band across the street. Tap the line and it says which side it applies to, for example "Applies to the west side of the street". DIFFERENT RULES ON EACH SIDE OF THE STREET — WHICH SIDE ARE YOU PARKING ON? Where the rules on the two sides of a street disagree, the app no longer guesses. The card asks which side you are parking on and shows what applies on each. Pick a side for its full answer; "Change side" asks again. Your pick is kept for as long as you stay at the spot. THE RIGHT SIDE FOR AROUND 800 RULES For around 800 rules the side of the street had been read the wrong way round, so the rule could be shown on the wrong side. The side has been corrected. THE SCANNER "Gäller ej jämna veckor" (not in even weeks) now reads correctly: the ban applies in the odd weeks, and every week outside the period on the plate. Before, the ban was placed on the even weeks — the opposite of the sign. "0–6 m" under a sign is a distance, not a time. The card used to say "Fee now" at a disabled parking bay and "Free now" at an emergency vehicle bay. A lorry on a plate reads as a lorry, not a motorcycle. On iPhone, a scan straight after a large photo from the photo library could read worse than usual. That is fixed. In English, vehicles are now named in English. Ända fram — all the way there.

THE VIEWFINDER NO LONGER ZOOMS FURTHER THAN THE CAMERA CAN SEE Standing some way from the pole, the viewfinder could zoom to 5×, show a blurry, pixelated pole and ask you to move closer — and then not change its mind when you did. Above 2× the iPhone camera only enlarges the picture; it does not see more. The auto-zoom now stops while the picture is still sharp, and "Move closer" clears as you arrive. Tap the zoom button yourself to go further in. THE WHOLE POLE IS READ, NOT JUST THE P The plates under a P sign — the hours, "Fredag", the fee — sometimes sat outside the box the app measured and cropped to. The viewfinder then said "move closer" with the pole filling the picture, and the reader never saw the plates. The box now covers the whole pole: the sign and the plates stacked under it. AN O WHERE A ZERO SHOULD BE "O–20 m" on a plate — the letter O painted where the digit 0 belongs — now reads as 0–20 metres instead of being turned away as something the app does not recognise. ALSO NEW SINCE 1.2.15 THE WEEK UNDER THE SIGN SHOWS ALL SEVEN DAYS The list under the week strip quietly dropped the day you were standing there reading the sign on: scan on a Sunday and there was no Sunday in the list, and nothing said a day was missing. At the same time Monday–Friday was split in two, so the fee line was printed twice. All seven days are there now, in calendar order from Monday, with identical days merged into one run — and the card says the same thing whichever day you read it on. MINIMUM STAY NOW REACHES THE ANSWER If the minimum stay you asked for is longer than the spot allows, the card says so under the answer: "But at most 30 min here — you asked for 1 h". Before, the list dimmed the spot while the card answered "Yes", with nothing said about why the two disagreed. The answer itself does not change: a short maximum stay is a limit, not a ban — you may park here, just not for as long as you planned. 279 MUNICIPALITIES, NOT 290 The app said "290 municipalities decoded". Eleven of them carry no rule at all, so the number counted municipalities the app knew the name of, not municipalities it can answer about. It now counts the ones that actually have rules: 279 — the same number parkgratis.se has shown all along. Ända fram — all the way there.

THE FEE ON THE PLATE NO LONGER FALLS OFF THE CARD A plate that says two things — "2 tim / Avgift / 7-19 / Taxa 5" — was read correctly, but the card showed only the maximum stay and said "Free now". The fee was on the sign and not in the app. The card now says both: how long you may stay, and that it costs money. "ALLA DAGAR" IS SEVEN DAYS The words "Alla dagar", "dagligen" and "varje dag" were in none of the tables the app reads with, so "2 tim / Alla dagar / 9-21" came out as "weekdays 9–21" — and Saturday and Sunday looked free when they were not. All seven days are read now, and seven identical days are written back as "every day". A BAY FOR PERMIT HOLDERS IS NOT A FREE BAY "Övrig tid / P-tillstånd", with no verb after it, fell through the app's lexicon and the card printed a time and nothing else. It now says the bay is reserved. Two words do not stop reserving a place because the third was never painted on. THE SIGN'S OWN FACE CARRIES CONDITIONS TOO A P-sign that carries the condition on the sign itself — "Rörelsehindrad" (disabled permit), "Laddplats" (charging bay), "Förhyrd plats" (rented bay), "Boende" (residents), a code or a zone — was written out as ordinary free parking: "You may park free of charge". The condition was swapped for the generic sentence, with nothing said about it. The card now states it. A disabled-permit bay does not become everyone's bay because the words were painted on the sign instead of the plate beneath it. A DEADLINE TO PAY IS NOT PERMISSION TO STAY "Inom 48 timmar", in an operator's small print about unpaid fees, was read as 48 hours of parking. A number beside a time word is not a permission. The same for phone numbers: "08-125 05 000" on a contact plate was read as a clock and made the afternoons free on the whole pole. DAYS WRITTEN AS WORDS "Vardagar", "sön- och helgdag(ar)", "helgdagar" and "dag före sön- och helgdag" are now read as the day classes they are. Before, "dag före sön- och helgdag" became a Sunday, and "sön- och helgdag" only Sunday — which made 1 May, 6 June and Ascension Day look free when they were not. THE WEIGHT PLATE NAMES AN AUDIENCE, AND A SIDE OF THE LINE "Högst 3,5 t" — at most 3.5 tonnes — was rendered as "over 3.5 tonnes", the exact opposite. And under a prohibition sign, a symbol plate names who is forbidden: a plate pointing at lorries does not forbid a car, and the headline now says so. "COULD NOT BE READ" BEATS A GUESS The phone's own text recognition sometimes drops a digit or runs two rows together. A clock missing its start ("-6"), a window that would run seventeen hours across midnight, a season row that looks like a season but cannot be read — all of it used to be guessed at. The card now says a plate could not be read, and the photo of that plate stays on the card so you can read it yourself. The sign on the street is the one that counts. Follow it.

SPONSORED NAMES READ ON BOTH LIGHT AND DARK MAPS A sponsored place's name took its colour from the app's theme instead of from the map beneath it. With a light theme and a dark map, or the other way round, it was close to unreadable. The map decides now, so the name reads in every combination. SPONSORED PLACES GET A PROPER PIN A sponsored place used to be a long, narrow pill that was hard to hit. It is now a navy pin with its tip on the place, as easy to tap as a parking marker. The name sits beside it and the offer on the line below, with the word "Sponsrad" first on that line — what is advertising must always be visible. Pins that would cover each other move their text or hide it, and a car park is never covered by a sponsor. THE CARD IS REBUILT Logo and name on one line, the walking time below, and the offer is the button itself: one tap gives you the single-use code to show at the till. Directions and Close stand apart, so your finger cannot land on the wrong thing. The cross in the corner is gone — the card closes like everything else in the app, with a button. A PHONE ON ITS SIDE IS STILL A PHONE Turned sideways, the app mistook some phones for a desktop: a wide panel took almost half the screen, the search field landed on top of it, and the list inside that panel stayed on "Finding parking…" while the spots were already on the map. A phone on its side now keeps the phone layout — the whole map, and the list where it belongs. And the list is readable: the header takes one row instead of two, you get whole cards instead of a sliced band, and a tap on the count opens the list all the way. Sponsored places exist in a few localities only and can be switched off in Settings. Where there are none, the map is exactly as before. The sign on the street is the one that counts. Follow it.

THE STREET IS NAMED ON THE CARD A street card used to be titled by the whole regulation sentence — "On marked stretches on Kavallerivägen as shown on the map". It is now titled by the street: "Kavallerivägens södra sida". The name comes from the regulation itself, and from the road network only when the regulation gives none. CLEANING NIGHTS NOW REMIND YOU ON PERMITTED STRETCHES TOO Many streets where parking is permitted carry their ban — a cleaning night or date parking — in the same regulation. The reminder read only the fee and the max stay and stepped over the ban. It now counts the ban as a deadline like any other, season included. HOLD YOUR FINGER ON THE MAP TO PARK — ON IPHONE TOO A long press on the map never opened the menu on iPhone; the timer waited for an event WebKit does not send during a touch. It now starts the moment the finger lands. "MAP CENTRE" WHEN THE POSITION IS UNCERTAIN With a position fix 143 metres wide, the answer still said "for your location". It now takes a fresh fix of 50 metres or better to say that; otherwise the answer is for the map centre, and says so. Also: the "nearest known" row shows two lines and a chevron for the rest; a window that crosses midnight is judged by the day it began; five small controls got real tap targets; with no coverage the map says it could not load instead of showing an empty Sweden. The sign on the street is the one that counts. Follow it.

THE MAP NO LONGER ZOOMS PAST ITS OWN ACCURACY You could pinch in until the screen held a few metres of ground, and at that point the street-rule lines visibly missed the street. The map now stops at the level where it can stand behind what it draws. "CAN I PARK HERE?" SAYS MAYBE WHEN THE ANSWER IS MAYBE Sometimes a green "Yes — free now" rested on a marked stretch some distance away, while a parking ban was in force where you actually stood. The app now answers "Maybe — check the sign" in amber and writes out how far away the stretch behind the answer lies. A CLOSE BUTTON YOU CAN HIT The answer card closes with a wide Close button along the bottom instead of a small × in the corner. On a prohibition answer, that × had been the only control on the whole card. THE LEGEND SHOWS EACH STROKE SEPARATELY The street rules' single clumped row is split into one row per stroke, and the dash pattern now follows what applies right now rather than which kind of record the rule came from. The sign on the street is the one that counts. Follow it.

READ THE SIGN WITH THE CAMERA Point the camera at the sign pole and the app reads it for you — on the phone, without the picture leaving it. You get no verdict, but what the sign says in plain words, with the clock, the weekday and the public holidays folded in: what applies right now, when it changes next, and what the whole pole says line by line. WHEN SOMETHING CANNOT BE READ, THE APP SAYS SO If a plate could not be interpreted it says so, and it claims nothing about the sign as a whole. When a text is uncertain it asks you instead of guessing — answer, and the card corrects itself at once. THE VIEWFINDER HELPS YOU AIM A frame and a line of text show how the pole should fill the picture, and the first time you get a short instruction. If a single plate came out unclear you can retake just that one, not the whole pole. OFFERS FOLLOW YOUR POSITION Sponsored places are now anchored to where you actually are, however far the map is zoomed out, and they appear without you searching for a destination first. If you have chosen a destination, that still wins, exactly as before. In 1.2.8 they could stay away until you searched — that is fixed. STILL NOT SENT The photo is read on the phone and is never uploaded. The list of sponsored places is fetched as it stands, and the choice of which to show is made on your own device. Your position is never sent to us in order to pick ads. The sign on the street is the one that counts. Follow it.

OFFERS WHERE YOU ARE Sponsored places now show around the part of the map you are looking at — which, when you open the app, is usually where you are. You no longer have to search for a destination first. Zoom in to neighbourhood level and they appear; zoomed out, none are shown. If you have chosen a destination, that still wins, exactly as before. Not every area has such places. THE DISTANCE SAYS WHAT IT WAS MEASURED FROM The sponsored-place popup now says "härifrån" (from here) when the distance is measured from your GPS position. If the app does not know where you are, it prints no distance line at all — it never claims a distance from a point it cannot name. STILL NOT SENT The whole list of sponsored places is downloaded as it stands, and the choice of which to show is made on your own device. Your position is never sent to us in order to pick ads. THE MAP FINDS YOU WHEN YOU OPEN THE APP The app asks for your location as soon as it opens — allow it and the map centres on where you are, with the parking and the sponsored places around you, without you tapping anything. The location button is now for when you have moved somewhere else on the map and want to come back. If the phone needs longer to get a GPS lock, the app waits for it instead of giving up. The sign on the street is what counts. Follow it.

OFFERS CAN NOW BE USED AT THE TILL Where a sponsored place carries an offer, the card has an "Använd erbjudande" (use offer) button. Tap it once you are there and the app shows a single-use code as a QR code for the staff to scan. The code is valid for 15 minutes. Not every area has such places. DIRECTIONS FROM A SPONSORED PLACE The "Vägbeskrivning" (directions) button in the sponsored-place popup did nothing in some situations. It works now. The sign on the street is what counts. Follow it.

THE FEE STOPS WHEN THE REGULATION SAYS IT STOPS A kerb whose regulation charges only on weekday daytimes was shown as paid at every hour — evenings, Saturdays, Sundays, the small hours. The regulation states the paid hours in its own text, and that text had never reached the field the app reads, so the charge looked permanent. It is now read from the regulation on 835 stretches of kerb. Where the fee window ends, the app says free, because that is what the document says. THE CLEANING-DAY BAN IS NOW ON THE CARD, NOT JUST A WARNING Some kerbs carry a ban that exists only as a sentence in the regulation — "parking is however prohibited Tuesday between 08.00 and 12.00" — with nothing structured behind it. Until now the app could only mark those kerbs as carrying something it could not read. It now reads 770 of them and shows the hours. This is the case that gets a car towed, so where the sentence is not plain enough to read whole, the app still refuses rather than guessing: 1,161 kerbs keep the warning instead of acquiring a ban we are not sure of. A REGULATION IS NOT IN FORCE BEFORE THE DAY IT SAYS IT IS A regulation that takes effect next month was being applied today, and regulations that had already ceased were still being answered for. Both now follow the dates the document states, and 78 expired ones stopped being shown at all. THE CARD NAMES THE SIDE OF THE STREET "On the south side of Gröna gatan, between Presidentgatan and Ekgatan" was reaching the app as "between Presidentgatan and Ekgatan". The side is back on 510 kerbs, so the app stops describing a stretch it does not actually govern. THE MAP IS OURS NOW The map is drawn from our own copy of Sweden instead of a third party's tiles, and it tells you when you leave the area it covers rather than going quietly blank. In satellite view the high-resolution Lantmäteriet imagery is no longer hidden behind the worldwide base layer, and the credit at the bottom now names the imagery you are actually looking at rather than both at once. SMALLER THINGS ON THE CARD The verdict has its own line again. The prohibition states its own hours. The ▾ that opens the payment options works. Tap targets that were too small to hit are the size they should be, and the map shows where a suggested spot actually is rather than only which pin it belongs to. The sign on the street is what counts. Follow it.

RULES READ FROM THE MUNICIPALITIES' OWN REGULATIONS Street parking was answered mostly from map tags before. Fees, permit requirements, time limits and parking-disc duties that exist only in a municipality's published regulation were not in the data at all — so a kerb that charges money could read as free. Those conditions are now taken from the regulation's own text. Public holidays are handled properly: a holiday falling on a weekday is no longer treated as an ordinary working day, and "vardagar" covers Saturday as the regulations intend. Loading bays, bus bays and motorcycle bays are no longer shown as ordinary parking. Regulations that have expired, or that only apply in another season, no longer show as in force. We measure this against the published regulations instead of assuming it, and it is better rather than perfect — which is why the caution below exists. A CAUTION WHERE THE REGULATION SAYS MORE THAN THE CARD CAN A kerb the app calls parkable can still carry a condition written only in the regulation's own prose — a parking disc you have to set, a ban on one weekday morning for street cleaning, a rule that hands off to a different regulation. None of that fits the fields the card is built from, so none of it was shown. Those kerbs now carry a caution, and the card quotes the regulation's own sentence, in Swedish, word for word, instead of paraphrasing it — several of them are ambiguous enough that any paraphrase would be a guess. The colour never changes: a green kerb stays green. The caution only tells you the regulation says more, and that the sign settles it. THE CARD LEADS WITH WHAT YOU MUST DO The condition used to sit fifth, below the times and the fine print. It now sits directly under the answer. The card also sits lower on the screen, near the kerb you tapped instead of far above it. THE SEARCH PIN IS A PIN AGAIN On iPhone and Android, the pin dropped by a search was drawn as two broken images. Fixed. PLAINER WORDS ABOUT WHAT WE RUN Our privacy policy said a single feature reached a server of ours. Several do: resolving a shared map link, fetching sponsored places and their logos, and serving our own aerial imagery. The policy now names each of them, and says what leaves your device when you tap Navigate or a parking-payment app — coordinates to the map app you choose, and nothing at all to the payment app. The sign on the pole is the authority. Follow it.

A NO-PARKING RULE THAT EXEMPTED ITSELF An area-wide parking ban can carry its own exception — "the prohibition does not apply where parking is allowed by local regulation". The app read the ban and ignored the exception, so a marked, legal stretch inside such an area answered "Not allowed here" to a driver standing on it. Where a permission meets a ban that exempts itself, the permission now answers, and the card says why. A ban without that exception is never silenced, and a permission across the street still cannot speak for your kerb. "SHOW THE SIGN" IS GONE The street-level photo of the real sign has been removed. Where a photo existed it helped; too often there was none, or one too old or too far away to settle anything — and a button that usually cannot answer is worse than no button. A QUIETER PARKING CARD The OpenStreetMap editing links have come off the spot card. They served a different person than the one standing at a kerb deciding whether to park. The sign on the pole is the authority. Follow it.

NEW: SATELLITE VIEW Aerial imagery at 0.16 m resolution across 60 municipalities, from Lantmäteriet's ortofoto. Switch to satellite when you want to see the entrance, the barrier, or where the bays actually are before you set off. Outside those 60 municipalities you get a standard satellite map. THE SIGN READER IS GONE — FOR NOW It handled multi-tier signs well, but not reliably enough on real photographs, and an answer that sounds certain while being wrong is worse than no answer. We would rather remove it than let it guess on your behalf. The sign on the pole is the authority, as always. THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE STREET A regulation often governs one kerb only — "the north-east side, between ...". The app used to answer the same for both sides, so a permission across the street could read as permission where you were standing. Now the permissive answer goes quiet when the rule points at the other kerb. A prohibition is never silenced: uncertainty can only move the answer toward "unknown", never toward green. READABILITY The verdict headlines failed the contrast requirement against white — "Avgift nu" was the weakest of them, and it is read in sunlight while you decide whether to pay. Every status colour has been darkened as text. The map's colours are unchanged. SPONSORED PLACES The app may show the occasional sponsored place near the destination you chose. These are always labelled "Sponsrad", they never affect which car parks are listed, their order, their price, or whether they count as free — and you can switch them off in Settings. ALSO • Private land that could previously answer "free now" no longer does. • Car parks where every bay is accessible count as disabled-permit bays, not ordinary parking. • The free filter used to hide every accessible bay in the country. • Plan for a Saturday and you now see spots that are free on Saturdays. • The list's status line agrees with the rows underneath it. The sign on the pole is the authority. Follow it.

This update is about the app being straight with you. Every item below is a place where it used to tell you something that was not true. • Bays reserved for lorries, trailers, buses or motorhomes are no longer shown as an ordinary spot you can use. 835 street rules were corrected. • Streets with resident permits (boende) now read the clock, so the app stops saying "pay" during the hours when anyone may park there. • Customer and petrol-station parking now carries its "check the signage" note instead of looking like an ordinary open spot. • The sign reader understands signs with several tiers. "30 min 8-10 15-17 / 4 tim övrig tid" now reads as a schedule, with the restrictions listed out rather than flattened into one answer. • The sign reader stays inside the sign: it no longer picks up text from around it, and when it cannot read a panel it tells you so instead of guessing. • Reminders no longer say they are set when notifications are switched off. As always, the sign on the pole is the authority. Follow it.

• Share to ParkGratis: send a map link or an address from other apps straight in, and the parking search runs for you. • Photograph the sign with guided capture and zoom: point the camera at a parking sign to get its rules explained — a sign across the street is now within reach. • Destination favourites: save the places you park at often and reach them right from the search bar. • Automatic reminders before your parking deadline — for example a max-stay limit or the moment a fee kicks in. • Automatic reminders ahead of street-cleaning days and other no-parking windows, so you can move the car in time. Always check the actual sign. Questions? tata2026@tutamail.com