OSMUS State of Charge - June 29, 2025

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State of Charge - June 29th, 2025

For the week of June 22nd to June 28th the Alternative Fuel Data Center has posted 38 new charging stations in the United States! All of which have been uploaded to OSM. All links and files are also centrally located on the OSM Wiki as the United States AFDC Manual Sync Project.

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Insights from this week

  • During the conflation step with existing OSM data, there was no item(s) to conflate.
  • This is the first week I have used the “Charge Point” API endpoint from the AFDC as opposed to “Charging Station.” Reason being, there is a brand new and improved script I used to not only capture new charging stations but also new charge points in those stations! In all cases I also had the script aggregate an overall amenity=charging_station from a group of charge points, but if all charge points had the same lat/long, I only update OSM with the overall station.
  • This new script is in a new home! Please check out my new repository on GitHub for the script and all update files for this AFDC project and any other US EV projects of mine going forward. Please use Issues / PR if you want to change / add to the script!

Bonus: .csv is rendered as a table and .geojson as a map in GitHub so you can check the files in an interactive way!

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New in the Charging Station OSM world

  • I have started to build out a US-centric Charging Station wiki page with information specific to us here in the US. I’ve also included a section on imports and brands/networks since they can get confusing. Let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see added to the page, I want it to be a “living document.”
  • The supercharge.info import has completed its first pass. Much of this data was not present in OSM previously so it is a huge benefit to EV drivers in the US relying on OSM data. Range anxiety be damned! The cleanup is still underway and some great conversation has been happening on the discussion page to make this and subsequent imports as great as they can be.
  • The proposal to deprecate the socket:tesla_supercharger and related keys has passed! This means it is official, the 3 DC charging connectors in the US are: socket:nacs, socket:type1_combo, and socket:chademo. If you see any stragglers around, feel free to update them!
  • With the new script working better than expected, I am going to soon start considering an update to OSM of the entire AFDC database. This has 2 considerations, the first being syncing, because some weeks the net charging stations go down due to data cleanup at the Department of Energy or stations closing (former is much more than the latter.) The second being conflating all these to existing OSM data. The process would be the same as the weekly updates, just on a larger scale so careful attention would need to be done to not duplicate or worsen any data. If that goes well, syncing using ref:afdc should be easier and I can set a script to periodically update OSM if a station is removed from or added to the AFDC. These are all just initial thoughts, I’ll write up a whole wiki page when it’s time.

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A Special Thanks

A very special thanks to @TheNightRider who has given some great insight and thoughts surrounding the Supercharge.info import! Sometimes the discussion afterwards is just as important as beforehand and this is certainly the case here!

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Wow, thanks!

Got an appointment, but will be back later!