Profile used for matching
Edit these in setup/profiles.php and re-import from the Data page.
- Script
- Latin
- Language
- Portuguese
- Road edge lines
- White, solid
- Centre lines
- White, dashed, White, solid
- Bollards
- White, black top, Plain white
- Bollard reflector
- White / grey, Orange
- Telephone poles
- Concrete
- Camera
- Gen 3, Gen 4
- Licence plates
- White, Blue side strip
- Warning signs
- White triangle
- Landscape
- Mediterranean, Hilly
- Vegetation
- Eucalyptus, Pine
- Road surface
- Cobbles / bricks, Good
- Road numbers
- A, N, IP, IC, EN, EM
Country-wide 13
Plates white + blue strip left + yellow strip right (discontinued 2020 - Gen4 may show only the blue)
Portuguese: Ç Ã Õ Â Ê, no Ñ (very common in Spanish); street = Rua (Galician: Rúa w/ accent)
Spain: Ñ → Spain; ã/õ/lh → Portugal. Galicia: Rúa w/ accent + ñ.
Eucalyptus everywhere - in Europe otherwise only N-Spain
Spain: Language details decide.
Concrete ladder poles w/ very tall steps + small see-through holes per step (ES/FR: short steps)
Spain: Tall steps + holes → Portugal.
France: Blue pole plates → France.
Hunting signs red-white (diamond or rectangle; Spain's are black-white)
Bollards: wedge w/ thin white top or flat w/ wide reflector - white or dark-orange reflectors (darker than Spain's yellow)
Directional signs white w/ black arrows not touching the border (Spain: colourful number boxes, no arrow); km markers = wide rectangles w/ diagonal coloured left section + big square road-number signs each km; b&w waystones
Stop signs w/ large font (Spain: small compact font); chevrons black w/ yellow arrows - only Mediterranean country with this scheme
Black-yellow chevrons are Mediterranean-unique to Portugal (Nordics/Ireland use them too - but the landscape separates).
Ireland: Mediterranean look + Portuguese → Portugal; green rolling hills → Ireland.
Luxembourg: Mediterranean landscape → Portugal; central-European hills → Luxembourg.
Norway: Fjords/mountains → Norway.
Finland: Flat lake-forest landscape → Finland.
Iceland: Treeless volcanic landscape → Iceland.
Pedestrian signs: 5 stripes + person w/ noticeably high belt (ES: 8 stripes, IT: no belt, GR: dotted lines); signs typically in a white border (Spain mostly not)
A-type guardrails w/ red reflectors (Spain: yellow)
Spain: Red → Portugal.
Cobblestone roads (square stones laid diagonally) + bright cobblestone sidewalks - very common
The diagonal square-cobblestone roads + calçada sidewalks are the classic Portugal tell - Brazil inherited the sidewalks, so check the plates.
Brazil: Diagonal square-stone roads → Portugal; blue-stripe plates + Brazilian Portuguese spelling → Brazil.
White stone houses w/ orange tiled roofs; blue/yellow painted lines around windows/doors/wall edges; decorative mosaic-tile facades
Gen4 smallcam coverage
Regional 4
Area codes: first 3 digits (all start with 2); 29x = Azores or Madeira
Faro (south): decorative chimneys - round or square w/ spire tops (round = strongest clue); north: square concrete-block houses w/ white mortar (Galicia similar but w/o the mortar)
Montado (sparse holm/cork oaks) → southeast (dry in summer, lush in spring); olive rows → east (far NE + SE) - olives in dense rows vs oaks sparse & patternless; dense eucalyptus forests → northwest; maritime-pine forests → northern half (also Galicia); terraced Douro vineyards → east of Porto; citrus → south coast
Madeira & Azores count as Portugal - separate pages here
City 1
Lime-green street signs
Specific spots 1
Serra da Estrela: rocky highland + yellow-black striped snow poles; sandy-white pine forests → Setúbal↔Sines coast; far southwest = flat, dry, near-treeless bushland