Welcomes on the Dash, and “Moved there?”

The welcome cards

While the automatic region (Plus) is on, an entry newer than any the Dash has seen welcomes you where it was, with the place’s flags. A card comes for the country when that changes, and one for the state, province or other region when that does:

• From Alberta into Montana: both, the country’s first.
• From Oklahoma into Texas: the state’s alone.
• None for a state the entry can’t tell, such as an address ending “USA”.

The first card says what changed: the units on Current, the side of the road when it isn’t your region’s, whose average fuel prices show, when the Dash shows a price card.

The first time your log is there, it gives its count of that one country’s places of that one kind (“Montana is the 7th US state in your log.”, “Yukon is the first Canadian territory in your log.”, “Canada is the 2nd country in your log.”).

Into the country or state of the region you set (else your home region) it’s “Welcome back”, once you’ve been away long enough, counted from your first entry elsewhere. A card stays while you’re there (an entry in London after a crossing into England too) until Got it puts it away; a state’s goes by itself after 2 days.

Into the European Union from outside it, “Welcome to the EU!” comes first, above the country’s card: the country as one of its members and, the first time your log is in that member, how many EU countries it has been in. Living in the EU, it’s “Welcome back to the EU!”.

An entry’s spot tells its state in the US, its nation in the UK, its prefecture in Japan, its state in Germany and its region in the Czech Republic, by their official boundary lines. Within about 150 feet (45 m) of a line between two it’s the country alone, unless the address names the side: the state’s or region’s name, or a UK postcode whose whole area is in one nation. A little further, within about 5 miles (8 km), an address naming the state across the line still wins, for an entry logged after you drove on. Elsewhere an address tells the state in Canada, Australia and South Korea (and a US state by its two letters); in other countries only a crossing you log names one.

Their settings

While following, Settings → Region → Welcome messages has the Dash’s welcomes: Countries, The EU, and States, provinces and regions, each on or off, and two waits, each from 5 minutes to 30 days:

• Not again within: no welcome to a place you logged something in that recently (15 minutes at first).
• Welcome back after: how long is long enough, “Welcome back” to your own country or state only after that long away, from your first entry elsewhere (an hour at first).
• On a drive, both count from when you left the place, and no place is welcomed again within Not again within of its last welcome.

The welcomes follow the garage’s newest entry with a place, whichever car logged it. Logging two cars in two places at once? Set Welcome back after and Not again within to a day or a week.

Deleting or editing an entry, a restore or an import, or turning following back on welcomes no one.

As notifications

With the automatic region on (Plus), the Dash’s welcome to another country, state or province can also come as a notification, with the card’s title and first line. Turn it on in Settings → Region → Welcome messages → Also as a notification, or the same switch in Settings → Alerts.

One per card the Dash makes; the cards’ own switches and waits apply, so no card means no notification. Tapping it opens the Dash.

Moved there?

After 3 entries in a row somewhere that isn’t your region, the first and the newest a week or more apart, Moved there? offers to make it your region, saying what changes:

• In another country: its units, currency, date format and clock, as Settings → Region sets them, and your region becomes your home region if you have none (Home then shows that region’s usual units and formats, not ones you chose yourself).
• In another state or province of your country: your units and formats stay, as when you change it in Settings → Region.

Make it my region then says what it set, in Settings’ words. Make it my region keeps the day you moved (your first entry of that stay) with your home region, so the Passbook counts what came before it from where you lived then; removing the home region forgets it.

Not a move puts it away until an entry is back in your region.