[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Approved - EV Charging Station Mapping

[Andy Townsend]

On 03/05/2023 08:28, Marc_marc wrote:
> I don't see how an algo will detect that 2 objects 
> amenity=charging_station represent 2 sites on the same parking
> (and are therefore valid in the new schema) and not 2 charging
> stations on the same site (which would have to be changed to 
> man_made=charging_station).

Agreed - i tried to explain the problem at 
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/charging-stations-sites-or-individual-chargers/96810/198 
.  That resulted in this change 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal%3AEV_Charging_Station_Mapping&type=revision&diff=2504680&oldid=2498183 
, but beyond that communication didn't really occur (the people 
promoting the proposal thought that there wasn't a problem).

It's less of an issue here than it might me with other proposals because 
the infrastructure being mapped is getting expanded rapidly, so the "old 
ones already mapped" will be a small, shrinking subset of the total.

What might become an issue is that I doubt that the paradigm chosen here 
that mirrors existing petrol / diesel infrastructure actually matches 
what we will end up with - I suspect that we'll get "almost every 
parking space has a charge point" instead, although that's obviously 
some way off currently.

Best Regards,

Andy