Project Objectives
Our primary objective is to provide and maintain a quality Open Data set detailing the non-residential charging station infrastructure available to electric vehicle drivers globally.
To achieve this goal we provide:
- Access to an Open Data set of Charging Locations, Equipment details and user contributed supporting information. Note that the data licensing is mixed and specific to each applicable Data Provider.
- Tools and techniques (Web, Apps etc.) for accepting and managing data contributions and information maintenance.
- Web/API services to publish the data to all interested parties.
- Community support and discussions
Project Costs
Currently, our main project cost is server hosting and related services ( APIs, Storage etc), this is paid for my our sponsors
Our service level can be improved if we have funding for improved hosting/cloud services and additional development.
Project Resourcing
In addition to server hosting the following roles are performed by volunteers on a casual basis:
- Software Development (Web Site, Apps, Tools, API, Database, Server/System Administration, UI Translation).
- High-level Adminstration (Managing Editors, Network Operators etc).
- Marketing and Promotion (the quality of our data is directly dependant on user contributed edits and supporting information, requiring an active user base with comprehensive geographic coverage).
- Community Support and Discussion (Contact Us, Twitter, Facebook).
- Country Editors (with approval rights per country, editing and approving submissions).
- Community Contributors (end-users contributing and editing information).
Funding or sponsorship allows our project to allocate specific funding to accelerate or enable work in the many of above areas and other project aspects.