[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Charging station

[Bryce Nesbitt]

That's more like it!

Really what's critical here is no so much that it's a charging station, 
but rather than the presence of the compatible plug.

And if you flip it around, each fuel type could start gathering other 
important attributes:

     VDE-AR-E-2623-2-2:plug=yes
     VDE-AR-E-2623-2-2:cost=free
     VDE-AR-E-2623-2-2:stalls=10
     VDE-AR-E-2623-2-2:vertical_clearance=9ft
     diesel:fuel=yes
     diesel:vertical_clearance=17ft
     USB-Micro-B:plug=yes
     USB-Micro-B:cost=free
     USB-Micro-B:note=Located near the telephones

Thus you could have a parking lot or a toilet that offers charging.... 
in addition to the more common (and more likely to be shown on a map) 
fueling or charging stations.

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I would definitely vote no on the proposal until a standard dictionary 
of fuel / charging plug types is kept.


On 08/17/2011 02:13 PM, Jonas Tull wrote:
> That would be the two major drawbacks with the current proposal:
> A. No possibility to have several plug types at the same node.
> B. No clear way of sharing a node with amenity=fuel.
>
> A: The the same scheme as for "liquid" fuels could be used (i.e. 
> fuel:e85=yes/no, fuel:diesel=yes/no, et.cet). Something like 
> "charging_station:plug:VDE-AR-E-2623-2-2=yes/no" would be nice, and 
> easy to expand with "charging_station:battery:AAA"...
>
> B: Data miners and alikes should be able to gather info regarding 
> charging facilities from a amenity=fuel if it has tags matching 
> "charging_station:*". The other way around would of course also be 
> possible, if an charging_station also offers something like fuel:e85.
>
> /Jonas
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 21:06, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com 
> <mailto:bryce2 at obviously.com>> wrote:
>
>     For charging stations it seems exceptionally important to define
>     the plug style
>     available.  A charging station with the wrong plug is just as
>     useful as a gas station
>     offering only nuclear fuel pellets.
>
>     The trick is to standardize on names for each of the various
>     charging paddle styles,
>     and also allow for multiple types at one location.
>                                                -Bryce Nesbitt
>

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