Hi Kevin, Using the OVMS for accurate EVSE plotting is an excellent idea. I wasted some considerable tine driving around enormous car parks on the M4&5 last week looking for ecotricity's ChaDeMo chargers. I have already purchased (and received) my OVMS module for my Ion (i-Miev). I am hoping the project will, in time, be able to fill in some of the blanks as regards remote cabin conditioning and remote charging.
As it appears I have the ear of the horse's mouth... ? ... I would like to point out that as good as the OCM site is, it does not offer a built-in routing facility like google maps (GM) has - unless I missed something. Is this a facility that we are likely to see added to OCM soon? It is a real pain having to constantly switch between OCM and a routing program to plan a workable journey... Even more so if using a mobile device and not a desk top one. If the OCM data could be overlaid on GM somehow, you could have the best of both worlds. Also, as a registered user it would be helpful to be able to save a default startup location including certain EVSE types and thereby avoid the need to have to specify which country you want, what EVSEs you are interested in and then repeatedly zoom in to the area of interest - all of which is almost always going to be the same for any given user. Regards, Martin Winlow. On 15 Jan 2014, at 17:56, Kevin Sharpe <[email protected]> wrote: > MW, > > The OpenChargeMap charging database is open and available to all. People > can and do take copies of the database so no risk the data will ever be > lost. Submitting data to a commercial and closed database is something I > will never do for exactly the reasons Bruce stated. > > Data capture and quality control in OpenChargeMap is mainly manual today. > However, integration with the Open Vehicle project > (http://www.openvehicles.com) will allow us to automatically record > charging events in the database and IMO that¹s a significant step forward > for us all. > > Let me know if you have further questions. > > Kevin Sharpe | Founder & Patron | Zero Carbon World, a UK Registered > Charity #1141347 > > > > > On 15/01/2014 17:37, "Martin WINLOW" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bruce, >> >> Cripes. Thanks for the warning. Ditch recargo, then! >> >> Perhaps Kevin Sharpe (of ZCW) would like to comment on that issue too?! >> >> MW >> >> >> On 9 Jan 2014, at 18:03, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote: >> >>> I already completed formatting that newswire for posting and have it >>> queued for later as EVSE newswires do not get too many read hits. >>> It is queued to be posted because it is a point on the EV historical >>> timeline. Each day brings new changes ... So even if a newswire I post >>> does not get too many reads today, it will be useful info in the future. >>> >>> I plan to post it along with a Utility complaining that >>> wireless/inductive charging is less efficient. Some of the complaints >>> from the Utilities have been odd (they say one thing, but really have an >>> unspoken motivating agenda). Perhaps the large amount of power demanded >>> by a bus is once again making Utilities put in more infrastructure that >>> they would rather someone else pays for. >>> >>> ... >>> Be careful Martin, I spent a huge amount of time porting EVSE locations >>> to recargo, just to have them delete them (huh?!? ... all that work >>> gone). Their management has a different way of thinking, which still >>> does not explain why when both recargo and plugshare are owned by the >>> same person, their databases are not synchronized. Duplicity, and >>> fraught with errors of old sites that I could not get them to remove: I >>> gave up on trying to make them better. I still use plugshare to look up >>> items. >>> >>> I hope all your efforts with openchargemap.org remains productive even >>> into the future, and are not lost like all mine were with recargo. >>> >>> >>> {brucedp.150m.com} >>> >>> >>> >>> - >>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014, at 08:26 AM, Martin WINLOW wrote: >>>> Came across this today... >>>> >>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25621426 ... and having watched >>>> that >>>> video, the BBC kindly recommended this one from last year which I had >>>> not >>>> heard about either... >>>> >>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18409830 >>>> >>>> And on a (semi) unrelated matter... I'm off to Taunton in Somerset >>>> tomorrow to pick up a used Mitsubishi i-Miev (a Peugeot-badged version >>>> called the 'Ion'). Ex-lease with only 3.4k miles, registered in July >>>> 2011. It is 200 miles away so it's going to be interesting - something >>>> of a road trip. In planning it, I discovered there are rather more >>>> ChaDeMo charge points in England than I had heard of, mostly due to >>>> Ecotricity's quite aggressive installation program. They have about 70 >>>> throughout the UK, most in England. Map here .... >>>> http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/for-the-road/our-electric-highway >>>> >>>> Quite why no other charge point map has all these ones on is a >>>> mystery. >>>> I see Kevin Sharp of Zero Carbon World, who runs the openchargemap.org >>>> web site, has posted on the EVDL recently... perhaps he can answer that >>>> question? >>>> >>>> Meanwhile I am laboriously transferring all the ecotricity charge >>>> points >>>> I can find onto openchargemap.org's map. Quite why some government >>>> lackey hasn't done it already is a puzzle. As it is I now have 6 >>>> charger >>>> maps I have to trawl through! >>> - >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >>> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >>> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA >>> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >> http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA >> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
