Côté – Heritage & Culture Map

Every place has a story. Côté tells it. Discover local heritage on an interactive map: history, anecdotes, monuments and culture points per municipality and sub-municipality, narrated to match the reader. Alongside the map, learn the West-Flemish dialect through interactive lessons and play word games drawn from a real dialect vocabulary pool.

EXPLORE LOCAL HERITAGE
• Interactive map showing culture points (history, anecdotes, war memorials, dialect heritage) per municipality
• Stories tailored to the reader: each culture point has a narration style adapted to its audience
• Built-in heritage dictionary: difficult words are explained on the spot
• Tap a municipality or sub-municipality icon to see what is locally relevant
• Coverage growing across Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

LEARN THE DIALECT
• Sound-key (Klanksleutel) lessons that teach the systematic sound shifts between Dutch and West-Flemish
• Situational lessons grounded in everyday scenes (the baker, the dyke, asking directions, on the market)
• Vocabulary, translation and pronunciation exercises with native-speaker audio
• Progress tracking with badges and a hearts/lives system
• Exercises adapt to your level, from beginner to advanced
• Source language configurable: Dutch, French, English, German, Arabic, Turkish, Ukrainian or Polish, so you can learn the dialect from your own mother tongue

WORD GAMES (pool grows with the lessons)
• Hangman, Wordle, Filippine, Word-search, Snake, Maze: all drawn from the live dialect vocabulary pool
• Match-pair "kernwoorden" game per municipality (Bruges, Ostend, Kortrijk, Poperinge, Torhout)
• Community leaderboards for Snake and Maze, from your street up to all of Europe

DARK FACTORY: AI School
• 21 themes across 5 meta-categories (society, technology, sport, world, more)
• Content adapted to the reader's age group, no community features required
• Free for everyone

EVENTS NEARBY
• View local events (title, description, date, location) from the map
• Read-only: there is no reply, RSVP, friend system or private messaging — the App is not a social network

PREMIUM
• Unlimited hearts (lives) and accelerated learning
• Extended map radius and broader regional discovery
• Monthly, yearly or lifetime subscription via App Store / Google Play
• Manage your subscription in the platform's standard subscription manager

PRIVACY & SAFETY
• Full GDPR / UK GDPR compliance with in-app data export and account deletion
• AI-powered content moderation keeps the public surfaces (profiles, bios, events, culture-point feedback) safe and respectful
• Multi-layer GPS anti-spoofing and geo-indistinguishability for radius queries
• No tracking, no ads, no data selling; analytics is opt-in

Côté uses AI/ML for automated content moderation on user-generated content (profile, bio, event descriptions, culture-point feedback) and AI-assisted editorial drafting of lesson content with human review before publication. AI is not used for personalisation, profiling or generative content shown to users in real time.