I mean, people use amenity=charging_station [1], which has a name=* tag. And I think Europe imported a bunch of these over a decade ago. Maybe it's ME who is behind the curve here? Dian and/or Phil linked this / raised this already.
Regarding what Warin says, OSM just MIGHT be either "a" or "the" preferred method of navigating to the charger. OSM might even aspire to be "real time" in the regard, although that seems like an "under evolution now" process. (And some EVs already do this on their on-screen navigation). It's all how dedicated we want to be, starting with capturing the present inventory, comparing it to what is known to exist, and "gardening" that into a smooth, accurate future. OSM does this with roads and some POIs already, EV chargers are another class of POI. Getting tagging syntax on these to "established, agreed-upon, wide-area standards" is happening. And will until it settles down. That seems in our near-term or maybe medium-term future, as there is a lot of growth and change here. I think a node tagged amenity=charging_station is a "yes, now, today..." and maybe you could agree to add fee=yes (as I don't see a lot of free ones, though who knows, with widespread fusion in 50 years, we could dream). But yeah, tagging actual pricing would be like chasing pump data is today at a site like gas buddy dot com, with all its wackiness and sometimes / not always trustworthiness / updated status. OSM might get better at "real-time" in our future, but for now, I think focusing on "every single one of them on Earth, and with a solid syntax wiki-documented so most any mapper could nail one up the day its ribbon is cut" is good for us now. Node, plus good, sensible tags (including name=*) and technical stuff like sockets and voltages / amps and the operator=* and maybe owner=* tags, then getting into network=* stuff like ownership and standardization happens, all while more are built and more vanish or are behind private gates or "buses only" or "city corporate vehicles o nly" and they might be mapped, but dimmed in some renderers (like restricted parking lots are in Carto), because they are non-public. All of this is emerging, all of this will continue to emerge. I haven't drilled down too much into it, but I recall reading on some wiki somewhere (long ago?) that even amenity=fuel could "reveal" one of these (an EV charger), even though the "fuel" isn't liquid or gaseous but electrons via a socket that might even fit YOUR EV. So, wider-area taginfo and OT queries might continue with comparison against "known to exist" databases / inventories of these. And harmonization of tagging continues. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcharging_station _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
