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Pinned topic: Charging Hub Map (www.google.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by snacks to c/evs

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If anyone’s interested, this can be very helpful. Please use a browser, the mobile apps don’t show half the data. This is all UK hubs of 5 rapids, up to 32 I think is the record. It’s updated often when they go live.

What I found with zap map, THE BEST APP, is it’s very confusing for new users who can’t work out what it’s telling them. This gets around that issue, it shows you the public access tesla locations (ie not just tesla cars) as they don’t always advertise it, it’s pretty good. It doesn’t show the prices but it’s all contactless payment units apart from tesla and a few others where you’ll need an app to pay.

I’ve found it helps with long trips. Also as it’s quite complex some data might be slightly out of date but if you double check your other apps it will become clear.

Enjoy!

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[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you considered submitting this data to something like Open Street Map or Open Charge Map?

[–] snacks 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its basically drawn from a load of different sources. Plugshare, WattsUp, ZapMap and actually going onto the different operators websites and digging around alot, as well as on SpeakEV where theres a long thread in the Locations area.

If anything id like to take it off google maps and have an actual website but I have no idea how to do that. I can export all the data but google maps actually looks and works great so it would have to be better to be worth it.

[–] projectmoon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm yes in that case, it could be problematic to import the data to those other sources. They don't want data copied from other map services to avoid legal issues. They only want things you find yourself in the physical world or from open aerial surveys.

[–] snacks 1 points 1 year ago

I have been to many of them, the gps data is all correct so you can navigate using this map by clicking the navigate option to CarPlay or Google maps. If someone wants to add the data to another map you just need to export the KML file, or download the csv for excel and import to a new map.