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Open Charge Map is the global public registry of electric vehicle charging locations. Established 2011. Help wanted.
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Bicycles #97

Open thibaultmol opened 8 years ago

thibaultmol commented 8 years ago

Hi

I feel like it's hard to differentiate between car and bicycle charging points...

zymurgic commented 5 years ago

Just some thoughts: Typically a bicycle charging space would have a domestic socket, and would have off-road parking suitable for electric assist pedal cycles. In fact, they are often off the main roadway entirely, and on the pedestrian footway, with the intention that the cyclist would dismount and push the cycle the last bit to the bike stand with charging facilities.

There are also charging spaces for electric motorbikes; these bikes tend to be heavier, and aren't expected to be pushed onto the pedestrian footway, and the charging spots for these resemble car charging spaces, though there's insufficient room to park a car in the charging bay. example: https://openchargemap.org/site/poi/details/19466

Thinking about other different types of vehicles, there's electric lorries, which require much bigger charging bays than most EV charging bays.

I have yet to see any charging database with this sort of information, and none of our data import sources have it either. We don't have a field in the database that would suit the immediate requirement.

webprofusion-chrisc commented 5 years ago

Would we typically say that electric motorbikes can use EV charging that also suits cars?

I can see how electric cycles have their own equipment and spaces. There is a wider discussion around charging equipment categories: e-bike, etc but also dedicated charging vs ad-hoc (oh look a plug socket for the cleaner to plugin the floor polisher, I'll add that). So ideally we'd label locations with one or more categories, then we'd be flexible to add more (potentially things like immediate amenities).

webprofusion-chrisc commented 5 years ago

On the topic of tags/labels, for years we've have a feature in teh database for MetadataField, this was intended for stuff like data source attribution, POI type (guess what!), Amenities, Cross reference of ID's from other databases etc., but has been largely unused because it's not exposed in the editor.

Here is the tracking issue for a new editor: https://github.com/openchargemap/ocm-system/issues/113