EV Charger Maps

[Kevin Sharpe]

We're a UK charity and about to install a large number of charge points throughout the UK. We will add our location and charge point data to several of the existing charger maps. Unfortunately, each of theses map databases are proprietary and it will take considerable effort to maintain the data as the number of sites grows.

Is anyone aware of an open source charge map application that we could throw our weight behind? If not, would anyone like to join us in developing an open source solution for the EV community?

Feel free to PM me if you'd rather not discuss this in public.

[vfx]

Please keep this public. EVCharger maps has been a great resource but he will soon be overwhelmed. As it is the Tesla chargers are not up to date and I'm always finding outdated info in regards to chargers. +One place might have had the listed chargers gone for years and another have twice the chargers listed. An open source with pictures and descriptions of locations would be great (brilliant) Google maps has a picture function and they are EV proponents, why not work with them?

Also it would be good to plaster all chargers with a sticker that tells where to give the info to.

The oddest thing is to find out a private citizen has put in a public charger and no one (in the EV community) knows about it!! Even municipalities do it.

[Kevin Sharpe]

Please keep this public.

We really want to promote a public and open solution. We've contacted 20+ charger maps in all corners of the world. The burden of submitting hundreds or thousands of charge points to them all is enormous.... every single one has it's own database and definition of socket types. We really hope to find someone who's willing to open their solution for community participation.

[kgb]

Try WikiEVChargerMap.com

If that doesn't exist, then make one.

[vfx]

Did you see this thread?

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showt...light=charging

[Kevin Sharpe]

Did you see this thread?

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showt...light=charging

Yes I did thanks... I've reached out to most of these sites but don't think they are really opensource. Here as an example is what Recargo have to say;

"Does Recargo have an API or an XML feed? Can I use your data on my website or App?

Well … probably yes, it depends on the project. If you have an interest in building an interface to Recargo, or using our data in some way, we would love to hear about it. We are always looking to spread the EV gospel. Please contact us and we will work something out."

What I'd like to see is an opensource database that all of the apps could use... we'd then have a consistent standard and the data would only need to be entered once.

[vfx]

Someone should fund this effort!

[cinergi]

I've run a couple open-source projects before (and wrote the code). I could be convinced to do it again, but would need a lot of help from the community regarding standards, interfaces, design, etc. I'm also HORRIBLE with UI's, so any help there would be helpful. What are some of the thoughts here around "open source" and what that means? e.g. the source code should be open and people could contribute? How woudl the database be populated and maintained? Where would the site live? What services would I interface with to make things easier (e.g. Google Maps and things of that nature)?

[Kevin Sharpe]

I would suggest that we start with an open source database and encourage the developers of the existing apps and websites to use it. I'm making good progress with this approach and a number of developers have indicated that they will use the database when it exists.

I would suggest we use Sourceforge and a GPL license.... works well for lots of the software projects that we contribute to...

[Kevin Sharpe]

Once we have the database we could then develop apps and websites that use that data if we wished... or we could just leave it to the third party developers.