We now have national level efforts to map charging stations. In the USA there's a central database that has the name, owner and charge cord list for almost every station in the country. Unfortunately it does not have the *precise *position of the charger, usually just a street level address.
Charging stations come and go all the time. Synchronizing with a database would make the OSM version more useful. (like the very old https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmsync ) On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 2:55 AM Lionel Giard <lionel.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my experience (for cars at least, but i think it is similar for bicycle > or motorbike), the most important tag on a charging station is the " > *socket:<type>=**" tag as it will tell you if you can charge or not. The > access tag doesn't mean much about this, as technically that's the socket > which limits charging (you can't plug a CCS2 (combo) socket into a bicycle > for example as that's not a compatible socket). I think that most bicycle > only charge on domestic socket (like schuko) and thus, the user can just > filter on that type to see the charging place available. So if you have the > information about the socket type availabe at the charging station (a lot > of them have multiple possibilities) and it is compatible with the charging > equipment, even if it is designed for cars, you can technically charge a > bicycle. > > The access tag is more about legal access where there is a sign like "only > motorbikes can charge here" for example (it really depends on the country > too as a lot of countries don't have legal limitation for charging stations > or parking places in front of the station). Also the bicycle=no can be used > on any station that are specifically limited to some vehicle or brands > (like Tesla supercharger where a motorbike or other cars can't charge even > if it does charge with CCS because it is limited to the brand Tesla). I > don't know if there are other use cases for the access tag, but these two > only use the "bicycle=no" tag (and I assume that all other places are > "bicycle=yes" by default). > > Regards, > > Le ven. 11 juin 2021 à 11:20, Volker Schmidt <vosc...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> I am not a charging-station user myself, but I got approached by two >> different types of users about how to correctly insert >> ebike/mobility-scooter charging points in OSM. Hence I looked into how this >> could be done. >> I started with the English-language wiki page >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcharging_station> and >> also the German one >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Tag:amenity%3Dcharging_station>. >> Both pages and the actual tagging in OSM present a major problem: >> the indication of the vehicle type for which the specific station is >> intended is not mandatory, an is missing in 80% of the occurrences in Italy >> and Germany: >> >> amenity=charging_station >> >> Italy: 2045 >> >> Germany: 14226 >> >> The Netherlands: 3452 >> >> amenity=charging_station and bicycle=* >> >> Italy: 140 or 7% >> >> Germany: 2542 or 18% >> >> The Netherlands: 444 or 13% >> >> In my view this is a major problem, but, as I said, I am not even a user. >> I have no idea what overlap there is between categories. From an end-user >> perspective I suppose that the suitability of a station for "my" specific >> vehicle is the most important information. >> >> Any suggestions and/or experience? >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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