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Fri Sep 27 23:39:33 HKT 2013


I guess, for each station:

> a) An indication of when someone last charged successfully
> b) A 'star' style rating system to tell me how reliable it is
> c) Pictures
> d) Instructions
> e) Comments

I think OVMS can help with (a) and (b) primarily.

Regards, Mark.

On 12 Dec, 2013, at 1:45 pm, Christopher Cook
<christopher.cook at webprofusion.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark, 
> 
> From my personal point of view this all sounds good, OCM is probably not the
> best place to store very fine-grained charging stats and is mostly interested
> in aggregated summaries instead - basically high level info that's useful from
> a user perspective. While OCM is indeed focused on charging location
> information we also need to help users by identifying quality/usage
> information (good and bad) with locations which is where comments/checkins
> comes in. We augment that with photos to allow users to illustrate stuff about
> the location. 
> 
> Ideally if you could look-up OCM to confirm the (OCM Reference ID) identity of
> a charging location with the user at the time (choosing from nearest known
> locations?), then store that, which would help us then pull/associate data
> relevant to OCM later.
> 
> Ideally for us verbatim commentary would go to OCM as a normal comment/checkin
> submission - we could provide standard URL format for full comment/photo
> submissions etc via mobile browser - the user would then need to sign in to
> OCM normally. Obviously thats up to you but probably the simplest integration.
> We don't want to hold information of charging locations at private residences
> (someone's home) as the data protection/privacy issues are too complicated.
> 
> My own view of data licensing is that its a necessary evil, one I don't have a
> huge amount of interest in - I'd rather defer that to experts. Privacy is my
> main concern, infringing other peoples data license is obviously undesirable
> too, to varying degrees. People can get very upset about licensing, very
> quickly. 
> 
> I say go for it, make sure users know what information will become public, and
> please provide an HTTP API for querying the (shared, public) stats for later
> aggregation by OCM.
> 
> Cheers, 
> Chris

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) is determined is the opportunity for innovation. OVMS should just supply t=
he raw data and let the charge map vendors figure out how to best present th=
e information to users.</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp;Tom</div><div>=
<br></div><span id=3D"OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style=3D"font-family:Calibri; f=
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: 3pt"><span style=3D"font-weight:bold">From: </span> Mark Webb-Johnson &lt;<a=
 href=3D"mailto:mark at webb-johnson.net">mark at webb-johnson.net</a>&gt;<br><span =
style=3D"font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> OVMS Developers &lt;<a href=3D"mail=
to:ovmsdev at lists.teslaclub.hk">ovmsdev at lists.teslaclub.hk</a>&gt;<br><span s=
tyle=3D"font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 9:54 P=
M<br><span style=3D"font-weight:bold">To: </span> Christopher Cook &lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:christopher.cook at webprofusion.com">christopher.cook at webprofusion.co=
m</a>&gt;<br><span style=3D"font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> OVMS Developers &lt;=
<a href=3D"mailto:ovmsdev at lists.teslaclub.hk">ovmsdev at lists.teslaclub.hk</a>&g=
t;<br><span style=3D"font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Ovmsdev] Sharing =
Data Publicly - Public Charges<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv=
=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html charset=3Diso-8859-1"><div style=3D"word-wrap=
: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-spac=
e;">Chris,<div><br></div><div>From a user point of view, what do we need?</d=
iv><div><br></div><div>I guess, for each station:</div><div><br></div><div><=
blockquote style=3D"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>a) A=
n indication of when someone last charged successfully</div><div>b) A 'star'=
 style rating system to tell me how reliable it is</div><div>c) Pictures</di=
v><div>d) Instructions</div><div>e) Comments</div></blockquote></div><div><b=
r></div><div>I think OVMS can help with (a) and (b) primarily.</div><div><br=
></div><div>Regards, Mark.</div><div><br><div><div>On 12 Dec, 2013, at 1:45 =
pm, Christopher Cook &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:christopher.cook at webprofusion.com">=
christopher.cook at webprofusion.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-inter=
change-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div fpstyle=3D"1" ocsi=3D"0" style=3D"fon=
t-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: norm=
al; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphan=
s: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-sp=
ace: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px=
;"><div style=3D"direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><div c=
lass=3D"moz-text-flowed" lang=3D"x-western" style=3D"font-family: -moz-fixed; font=
-size: 14px;">Hi Mark,<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><=
br>From my personal point of view this all sounds good, OCM is probably not =
the best place to store very fine-grained charging stats and is mostly inter=
ested in aggregated summaries instead - basically high level info that's use=
ful from a user perspective. While OCM is indeed focused on charging locatio=
n information we also need to help users by identifying quality/usage inform=
ation (good and bad) with locations which is where comments/checkins comes i=
n. We augment that with photos to allow users to illustrate stuff about the =
location.<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><br>Ideally if=
 you could look-up OCM to confirm the (OCM Reference ID) identity of a charg=
ing location with the user at the time (choosing from nearest known location=
s?), then store that, which would help us then pull/associate data relevant =
to OCM later.<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><br>Ideall=
y for us verbatim commentary would go to OCM as a normal comment/checkin sub=
mission - we could provide standard URL format for full comment/photo submis=
sions etc via mobile browser - the user would then need to sign in to OCM no=
rmally. Obviously thats up to you but probably the simplest integration. We =
don't want to hold information of charging locations at private residences (=
someone's home) as the data protection/privacy issues are too complicated.<s=
pan class=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><br>My own view of data l=
icensing is that its a necessary evil, one I don't have a huge amount of int=
erest in - I'd rather defer that to experts. Privacy is my main concern, inf=
ringing other peoples data license is obviously undesirable too, to varying =
degrees. People can get very upset about licensing, very quickly.<span class=
=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><br>I say go for it, make sure use=
rs know what information will become public, and please provide an HTTP API =
for querying the (shared, public) stats for later aggregation by OCM.<span c=
lass=3D"Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br><br>Cheers,<span class=3D"Apple-=
converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>Chris</div></div></div></blockquote></div>=
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