OSMUS State of Charge - June 1, 2025

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State of Charge - June 1st, 2025

For the week of May 25th to May 31st the Alternative Fuel Data Center has posted 24 new charging stations in the United States! All of which have been uploaded to OSM. To subscribe to these changes in OSM and to see an archive of .csv and .geojson files please add the RSS feed to your favorite reader. All links and files are also centrally located on the OSM Wiki as the United States AFDC Manual Sync Project.

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Insights from this week

  • During the conflation step with existing OSM data, there were zero items to conflate. One item, the new Mercedes-Benz High Power Charging station in Ellenton, Florida showed for conflation, but was a false positive since an Electrify America and Tesla Supercharger both share the parking lot with this station – Plenty of electrons to go around!
    image courtesy of a PlugShare user.
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  • Of the 24 new stations, 8 are continuing the trend of adding charging stations to car dealerships. No pricing was in the AFDC for these stations but these are often set very high to discourage use from non-customers and during peak-hours. There is currently not a way to elegantly describe the facility or facility type for charging stations, so I have taken to adding them to the description=* field.
  • No new Tesla Superchargers this week, but that does not mean none opened, Tesla tends to update the AFDC in batches, so please add these stations as you see them but if not, they will be included in the next batch when Tesla releases the data!

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New in the Charging Station OSM world

I have started a new project of cleaning up existing OSM charging station data, mainly consisting of using the following Overpass query to find stations with the same name, operator, or brand nearby eachother:

rel(162050);map_to_area->.state; // Florida, U.S.A.
nwr[amenity=charging_station](area.state)->.allStations;
foreach.allStations->.station(
  nwr(around.station:100)(if:t["operator"]==station.u(t["operator"])||t["name"]==station.u(t["name"])||t["brand"]==station.u(t["brand"]))
  [amenity=charging_station]->.new;
 ((.new; - .station;);.adjacent;)->.adjacent;);
.adjacent out;

The issue is many of these “stations” are actually “charge points” much like a “gas station” is not a “gas pump”. Where only the charge points exist, and there is more than 1 of them, I add a station node in the center to capture or retain the station specific information to avoid information loss. So far the following states have been updated:

  • Georgia
  • South Carolina
  • Florida

Once the 50 states are cleaned up and updating weekly, the project of importing the entire AFDC database and conflating it to existing OSM data can begin. Until then, I am more than happy to work with contributors on your own area / state if you’d like! Just shoot me a message on the OSM US Slack or here!

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A Special Thanks

A very special thanks is in order to @Lumikeiju for updating the [Charging Station](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dcharging_station) wiki page with clearer language! Your work is greatly appreciated to make EV station data in the US as best as it can be!
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The wiki page mentions an EV Level2 EVSE Num.
Is this similar to the European reference number for charge points/equipment?
I couldn’t find it on the AFDC website and there is no use of ref:US:EVSE yet in OSM, though.

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Level 2 chargers in the AFDC are socket:type1 in OSM. The fields give a number of EVSE’s (using the European definition) that a station has.

These imports from the AFDC will all have ref:afdc=* using a semicolon delimiter list that is defined in the OSM wiki. The ref:afdc=* is analogous to ref:EU:EVSE=* in Europe.

Edit: I’m mistaken, ref:EU:EVSE and EVSE in the European context is per capacity, the AFDC and ref:afdc are per station. I haven’t tackled trying to parse EVSE data from AFDC yet.

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