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NKA's Diary Comments

Diary Comments added by NKA

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Assessing the quality of electric vehicle charging station data (with a specific focus on the "capacity" tag)

Please note that most of the commercial charging stations are mapped at the “site” level (only one OSM object for all points/sockets at a location), and often just with one node, rather than with a node for each of the charging points at the station. Almost all of the Tesla Superchager stations are mapped this way, for example. This is similar to how a fuel station is mapped.

There is no requirement to map a charging station (site) as a way rather than a node, so charging station nodes may easily have 20-30 sockets.

So I think your list of “suspicious” points is based on a misunderstanding of the OSM mapping, and a StreetComplete campaign should of course not be initiated.

Min Karta for Sweden Mapping

To clarify:

  • We are allowed to trace/to map based on what we see in the orthophotos from Lantmäteriet, for example on Min Karta. So the orthos are an acceptable source for OSM.

  • We do not have the permission to use the WMS service unless we pay for it. This is why the WMS has not been included in the predefined imageries for JOSM and iD.

  • Private use of the WMS in editors is perhaps a grey area, since we are permitted to view the content of the same WMS in Min Karta/in browsers, but I do not think this is something Lantmäteriet would endorse.

Min Karta for Sweden Mapping

Reply from Lantmäteriet:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-se/2018-December/003510.html