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Open Charge Map is the global public registry of electric vehicle charging locations.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0LGPL-3.0

Open Charge Map

Open Charge Map is the global public registry of electric vehicle charging locations.

The aim of the project is to move away from the need to maintain silos of privately held charging equipment location data and instead crowd source a high quality, well maintained public data set with the greatest breadth possible. Access to the data set is provided via a web API and developers have access to the API to in order to build their own apps.

This code here represents the backend systems (API, Web Site and server-side Import Processing) for the project. Also included is the source for the mobile/web app and example client code in various programming languages.

Server-side code is developed mostly in C#, currently building under Visual Studio 2012 with .Net 4.5.

The Web/Mobile app is built purely with HTML/CSS/JavaScript and requires the NodeJS based Jake build system (see build readme) to generated the minified version of the app.

Contributing

Please feel free to contribute in any way you can:

  • Improve the data:
    • Submit comments, checkins and photos via the web site
    • Submit new data, become an editor for your country
  • Improve the system:
    • Help translate the system into other languages using the webtranslateit project
    • Help write documentation
    • Web App (HTML/CSS/JavaScript)
    • Website development (MVC4)
    • Map widget for embedding
    • Sample Code for developers
    • Graphic Design
    • Testing
  • Grow the user base
  • Get involved: Discussion Forum