Hi Jean-Christophe,

having users enter data in multiple charge point databases will not work, users tend to stick to their preferred directory.

Charge point directories should interface with each other to exchange and enrich charge point information.

There are two major public charge point directories for Germany and Europe:

http://www.lemnet.org/de/

http://www.goingelectric.de/stromtankstellen/

LEMnet exists since 1997 and has the most charge points but is a bit "old school". GoingElectric is brand new, integrates a very good trip planning tool and has a very active community, nearly catched up with LEMnet on data. LEMnet still contains more private charge points (like mine) meant for light electric vehicles or bikes, while GE is more directed towards charging networks and high power stations.

Data quality is excellent on both directories.

If you establish interfaces or data synchronisation with these two, the OCM will cover 99.9% of all charge points available in Europe.

Regards,
Michael


Am 29.09.2014 um 09:25 schrieb J-C Saint-Pô:
Hy Michael,
With all this beautiful work you do, I would just buy a Twizy to be able to try it all out! :-))))

On an other note,
If your German or other counterparts would like to have more chargepoints visible in the ovms app, , They can do this by adding them on the openchargemap.org site
They do not need to have a OCM login to be able to do so
The handy thing about loging in into ocm, is that after a moderator checked your submissions where donne correctly we can give editing permissions to that person.  This way it's submissions will immediatelly published without having to be moderated
When you are loged into ocm, the comments you gave can be deleted by yourself in your ocm profile on the ocm website
but giving a comment can also be donne anonumously, but then the comment can only be deleted by a moderator

for people worried about remembering a new pasword for ocm and privacy
OCM does not store passwords or personnel data
You login with your twitter, google+ or facebook account
The only account data ocm stores is
twitter = twitteraccount and twitterusername
google+ = google+accountname and google+ e-mail
facebook = facebookaccount link & accountname
on these ocmaccounts data, ocm can then add for which country you have editing permission,

If people know how to bulk import chargepoints from certain providers, please contact christopher.cook@openchargemap.net  or christopher.cook@webprofusion.com  , he is the brains behind the ocm project!

For simple things like adding a provider to the existing list, you can mail me, jcsaintpo@gmail.com
I have already reached out o many providers to ask them for the ability to bulk import, but unfortunately I succeed only very rarely!
So if you can help ocm, please do so!
Ocm is not a commercial endeavour, due to which we do not have the manpower to find and contact all providors
Just as Openvehicles OCM depends on a few enthusiastic people
and with few, I really mean 2-3 people doing it in their spare time and more and more active users

If people using openvehicles that can not programme could add 1 chargingstation located in their neighbourhood every day, or week, I think this would greatly help ocm, but the openvehiclesapp too I think

Sorry for all my rambling!

Anyhow, I admire all the gorgeous work you people do with openvehicles

Jean-Christophe
Moderator/administrator for Openchargemap in my spare time ;-)


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