[Ovmsdev] Open Charge Map

[Paul Churchley]

I can see your point Lee.

I see OCM slightly different in that I see it as just one of many potential
charging databases out there that OVMS may want to interact with. By using
OCM as the charging database of OVMS you remove all aspect of control over
the data. The data collected by the OVMS users belongs to them, and by
inference to OVMS. Just giving it to OCM as our datastore means that OVMS
only has "acces"s to that data via the OCM API... we wouldn't have control
over the data itself. We would have lost all element of direct control
including where it goes to after OCM. That would then be down to OCM.

If those issues could be overcome, of if people consider these points
unimportant, then we could use the OCM database as "our" database I
suppose.

Perhaps OCM and OVMS would like to merge projects? Then this issue goes
away :-) Just a thought :-)

Smartphone apps are great but I believe that the best place to do location
relatively complex and comms-dependent tasks; such as matching, sending
updates to OCM etc, is on the OVMS server. What if there is a new database
that OVMS wants to update also? The phone app would need updating and every
user would need to update their app. In fact, some of that code might be
pretty big or complex and that would then reside on relatively low-powered
phone devices instead of the server. I wouldn't see this as a batch task.
It could still be real-time and triggered by the phone app.


On 22 May 2014 23:44, Lee Howard <lee.howard at mainpine.com> wrote:

> On 05/22/2014 02:49 PM, Tom Saxton wrote:
>
>> I'd like to make sure that whatever happens with OVMS reporting charging
>> station information stays open and stand-alone, not tied exclusively to
>> OCM.
>>
>
> Is OCM not open-enough already that it could simply be viewed as the
> charging-location database for OVMS?  Why should OVMS duplicate the effort
> of developing a charging-location database?
>
>
> Lee.
>
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