Hi, I’ve been playing a bit with the repository data and have a few questions. The idea was to create a visualization of the development of a network of charging stations in the form of a timeline, but I don’t fully understand at what point the charging stations become verified, whether this is a critical factor, and at what point the charging stations stop existing.
DateCreated is probably the closest to a relevant date that we have, DateLastVerified is a partially automated value that’s based on either the date created or the date a (positive) comment/photo/edit was last applied. Really those locations might be added in batches so you won’t get individual timeline data for each location.
When a location is no longer active it will either become Not Operational (still there but not working) or Decommissioned (no longer present or replaced by something very different) however we periodically clean up decommissioned items to avoid mapping confusion so if a particular OCM-ID is no longer present in the data set then it’s also decommissioned.
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