0.7.6: plates data refresh — France dimensioned + AD/DE/PT settlements

data/plates/PROVENANCE.md

@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ Copy of `plates/` from the public data repo (EXCLUDING `_art/`),
 refreshed on gem releases:
 
 - **Source**: https://github.com/vehiclesdb/vehiclesdb `plates/`
-- **Commit**: `90bd588f1667716402c168ba1f3b5a049128f692`
+- **Commit**: `1b5ffaa5c4ff3a441afb931b85ed8b2271bcc11a`
 - **License**: CC-BY 4.0 (see the data repo's LICENSE + ATTRIBUTION.md)
 
-Refresh: run `rake plates:refresh` (recreates this file — it is
-GEM-LOCAL and a bare `rm -rf data/plates && git archive` EATS it;
-that failure shipped once in 0.7.4).
+Refresh: `rake plates:refresh` (this file is generated by it).

data/plates/ad.yml

@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ common:
   emblem:
     present: true
     rendered: placeholder
-    note: "l'escut nacional del Principat d'Andorra, upper left (art. 6.1). PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule; no clean licence route located."
+    note: "l'escut nacional del Principat d'Andorra, upper left (art. 6.1). PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule. LICENCE ROUTE LOCATED 2026-08-03 (render-program hunt): Commons Coat of arms of Andorra.svg is PUBLIC DOMAIN, extmetadata-verified — asset + ledger row at plates/_art/ad/. Depiction consumers may render the real arms."
   origin:
     instrument_named: "Ordinació del Consell General del 13 de maig de 1929"
     rule: >-

data/plates/de.yml

@@ -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 applies: 16 Land arms, none licence-cleared." }
+      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 PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applied at write time; SUPERSEDED 2026-08-03: ALL 16 Land arms are licence-cleared in plates/_art/de-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." }
       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)"