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Fantastic. It’ll get my approval. A good step in the right direction for clarity before the charge point rollout really starts to grow.
Just a quick reminder that a lot (742) of charging stations for e-cars are mapped with car=yes instead of motorcar=yes. They seem to be coming from the old tagging scheme which was changed 3 years ago in the osm wiki.
by the way, what is your stance on motorcar=no for charging stations, is it about cars (vehicle type) or generally 2-tracked motor vehicles (as is the meaning of motorcar=no in the access context, which is linked from the charging station page).
The proposal has now been approved.
For those who would like to start updating existing individual charge points with the new man_made=charge_point feature, here is a file with an indication of suitable candidates (search for the GROUP tag): Link to OSM file.
Thank you to everybody who contributed in discussions!
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Multiple Blitz Power columns’, each capacity 2, Socket ‘C’, (behind autoclosing double locked slides so could not tell what they look like) . All 3 with “Charging Station” printed near the top.
FTM mapped as single node Charging station, capacity 6 
(oddly this was the second CS encountered on the same survey day where no parking spots were marked on the parallel street_side parking pavement, but since the displays were dead possibly still WIP, looked recycled at that).
All common brands here have phone apps to find their stations, BE seems to be specialised in Type2 sockets and Blitz in ‘C’ whatever that means. The latest model by Enel X, directly plugging into in a rugged street lantern pole in the city centre. Needs some tag creativity to squeeze that in 1 node.
Sorry that I am coming back to this
I wanted to try and use the new tagging scheme and stumbled across a few questions.
I edited the wiki page a bit to not discourage people from also mapping individual chargers.
At the same time I noticed that charger output should be mapped but we don’t clarify what to do if the charging station has charge points with different outputs. Fore xample I know stations that have 2 chargers with 150 kw CCS and 1 with 100kW CCS for example.
I see two options.
- we map the highest output to the station (socket:type2_combo:output=150kW)
- we seperate Max outputs by ;
(socket:type2_combo:output=150kW;100kW)
#1 would be easier for data consumers
#2 would be more accurate
What do you guys think?
I’d recommend option 2.
Completely bamboozled if we’ve chosen a tagging scheme that doesn’t cleanly support this?
Solution #1 is suboptimal since it leaves out information.
Solution #2 is better in that it retains information about multiple outputs. Not too fond of the ; and I don’t see a good way to connect the multiple outputs to the corresponding number of charging points (e.g. 2x150kW, 1x100kW).
I think the best (only?) way to accurately map this situation would be to split into separate nodes/ways. In the provided case, one could do
- 1 node with
socket:type2_combo=1andsocket:type2_combo:output=100kW - 1 node with
socket:type2_combo=2andsocket:type2_combo:output=150kW(alternatively 2 nodes withsocket:type2_combo=1)
As far as I understand the newly approved proposal these nodes would be man_made=charge_point (and in that case I would strongly argue to never attempt to duplicate socket/output information on a corresponding amenity=charging_station if it exists).
Instead of using man_made=charge_point on could just split into two amenity=charging_station and avoid the potential duplication and ambiguity of having socket/output information in two places… For reasons I still don’t quite understand, that solution is probably frowned upon by some 
To be fair, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dcharge_point does document socket info, so you could just put that there.
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Socket and output info can and should be added to man_made=charge_points. The problem with multiple outputs is one of the reasons why I proposed the tag originally.
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In the wiki for socket and amenity=charging_station it says:
socket:<type>:output=* → The maximum power that can be sourced from a single socket of the specified type at that charging station.
To me, this is the same as
I would leave it this simple.
But there are multiple maximums, so I would add them all.
Good point about the maximum! I see no inherent contradiction in doing one or both of:
- Adding individual (max) socket output power to
man_made=charge_point - Adding the maximum of those on
amenity=charging_station
Doing both doesn’t feel quite right, though, I think mainly because it duplicates information, and thus requires mappers to keep the two synchronized (and consumers to decide which to use in case of a mismatch).
It also appears to me that the aggregation of the properties of charge_point is better left to the consumer… Maybe they want the average or minimum. Anyway, such aggregations are trivial to compute so I’m not really sure doing it manually actually helps anyone?
I’d like to tag a charging point that offers 3 types of connectors on the same stall/device/dispenser/… (Delta UFC200).
These 3 connectors can be used simultaneously, with different power ratings. These 3 charging points also have their own EVSE reference that allows them to be linked to dynamic data that informs users which point is free, occupied, or down.
I can’t seem to do this with just amenity=charging_station and man_made=charge_point. Or maybe there’s something I haven’t understood.
What do you think?
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Just a comment. It may be posible that the charger can simultaneously use ale 3. But most places i have seen there are only 2 parking spaces there the cable can reach. So i will nomaly set capacity = 2
Depending on the vehicle plug location, how you park your car (forward or backward), and the cable length, it’s possible to use the 3 charge points.
I also do map both.
As the charging stations is getting bigger. I think it important to map man_made=charge_point so you can see there the slow and fast chargers are. It also give possibilities to set the REF nummers on the charge_points
Sure but 99% of the time i have seen it not. And normaly there is also only painted 2 parking spaces icons / signs .