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📍 Spots Help Centre

The Spots module is your private, van-aware location database and route planning engine — all in one place. Browse thousands of park-ups on a live map, plan multi-stop routes with real-time weather and fuel estimates, and build your own personal collection of favourite places.

Everything in Spots is stored locally in a high-performance on-device database. Your coordinates never leave your device.

🗺️ Browsing & Exploring

👉 The Spots Vault — The map-based browser: how spots appear on screen, tap to inspect, long-press to save a new location, FAB controls, and how filtering works.
👉 Spot Detail & Reconnaissance — The full detail sheet: Apple Look Around / satellite view, amenity badges, ratings, vehicle size restrictions, LEZ warnings, editing, and navigating to a spot.

🛣️ Route Planning

👉 The Trip Planner & Route Builder — Building a multi-stop route, adding waypoints from the map or the Spots Vault, toll and motorway options, per-stop ETAs, the Scout tool, navigation handoff, and marking stops as visited.
👉 Route Conditions — The weather and solar oracle: what it shows for your departure point and next destination, and how to use it before you set off.

📦 Datasets & My Places

👉 Spot Packs & the Dataset Manager — What Spot Packs are, the protected My Places collection, toggling dataset visibility, deleting imported packs, and checking storage size.
👉 Tutorial: Importing a CSV Dataset — Step-by-step guide for bringing an external CSV of locations into your Vault.

🚀 New to Spots? Start Here

👉 Tutorial: Planning Your First Route — A walkthrough from a blank map to a complete multi-stop plan with weather intel and navigation.

How Spots Connects to the Rest of the App

Spots feature	Connects to
My Places	Syncs across iCloud; spots survive phone restores
Spot detail ratings	Mirror your Check-in ratings when promoted to a Trip Check-in
Trip Planner waypoints	Can be promoted to full Trip Check-ins inside an Expedition
Van profile dimensions	Used to auto-filter spots that don’t fit your vehicle
Route fuel estimate	Pulled from your Money ledger’s average fuel cost per km/mile
Route Conditions weather	Same engine as the Trips weather card on the Dashboard

Check-ins and Timeline (Promoted waypoints become Check-ins)
Van Profile and Setup (Sets your vehicle dimensions for size filtering)
Fuel Log and Economy (Source of the fuel cost estimate in the route sheet)
Permissions Explained (Location permission required for Spots Vault)