It would be extremely useful if you would allow the sharing of public “L1” charging as well. An increasing number of people are informally allowing their conventional 120V sockets close to parking spaces to be used to trickle charge EVs. It’s a lot slower, but for people with low mileage needs they are better than nothing (and much cheaper to install).
I note that Chargehub does index such chargers… Find every public charging station for electric cars | ChargeHub
We do include L1 charging if it exists and is public. If it’s residential it cannot exist in the Open Charge Map data set as it would potentially violate any number of global data protection laws, which we’re not equipped to deal with.
1 Like
If I register my own domestic outlet or that of my own business as publicly available and I attest that the outlet is mine wouldn’t that be enough?
I think the main problem is actually that the plug descriptions are obscure - I suspect few outside the industry would know that a standard three prong North American plug is a “NEMA 5-15R”…
Commercial premises are fine, private homes are not, for a bunch of reasons. You can of course use PlugShare to share home charging.
Open Charge Map is the database used by a bunch of other apps and services, and once they have the data we don’t control it anymore, so they can of course use any name they like for the sockets.
1 Like
I just realized - the warning not to register private residences does not appear when you choose “add a public station” - you only see this if you go into the edit/approval queue.
If you are a Bed and Breakfast or Air B&B operating out of an address and you don’t want to have your charging station removed from the list by an editor, what’s the best way to make sure (if your accommodation does not have a “name”). Give it a “Location name” of “Accommodation”?
If it’s a Bed & Breakfast just include Bed & Breakfast (or the establishment name) in the name, it’s unlikely that the establishment is simply called 22 Acacia Avenue (for instance) when you look up accommodation on google?
We can’t really tell if an address is a house or not, the only indication is if we look on streetview and it’s clearly someones house.
Some users will indeed manage to add their own private house if they are particularly determined. It will just eventually get deleted.