Open Charge Map

aid: api-evangelist-openchargemap
name: Open Charge Map
description: >
  Open Charge Map is the global public registry of electric vehicle charging locations,
  established in 2011 as a non-commercial, community-driven project. The platform maintains
  a crowdsourced dataset of 300,000+ charging points worldwide, combining manually entered
  data with imported open data from government registries and charging networks. The REST API
  enables developers to search and retrieve POI (Points of Interest) data on EV charging
  stations, including location details, equipment specifications, connection types, operator
  information, and user-submitted check-ins and photos. Data can be filtered by geographic
  coordinates, bounding box, country, operator, connection type, charging level, and
  operational status. The API is free to use with an API key registration and supports both
  read (GET) and write (POST) operations for contributing new charging location data.
type: Index
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/openchargemap/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
  - Electric Vehicles
  - EV Charging
  - Charging Stations
  - Points of Interest
  - Open Data
  - Geospatial
  - Transportation
  - Clean Energy
  - Crowdsourced
  - Registry
apis:
  - name: Open Charge Map POI API
    description: >
      Primary REST API for searching and retrieving EV charging station data (Points of
      Interest) from the Open Charge Map global registry. Supports geographic search by
      latitude/longitude with distance radius, bounding box filtering, country filtering,
      and filtering by operator, connection type, charging level, usage type, and operational
      status. Returns full POI data including address, equipment details, connection types,
      power levels, operator info, and user comments. Supports compact and verbose output
      formats in JSON. An API key is required and passed as a query parameter or HTTP header.
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    humanURL: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api
    baseURL: https://api.openchargemap.io/v3
    tags:
      - EV Charging
      - Points of Interest
      - Geospatial Search
      - Charging Stations
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api
      - type: GitHub
        url: https://github.com/openchargemap/ocm-system
  - name: Open Charge Map Reference Data API
    description: >
      REST API endpoint returning core reference data used for interpreting POI results,
      including connection types, charging levels, operators, countries, status types,
      usage types, supply types (AC/DC), and submission status types. This data provides
      the lookup tables needed to decode numeric ID fields returned in POI results. Can be
      filtered by country. Returns reference data in JSON format with an API key.
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    humanURL: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api
    baseURL: https://api.openchargemap.io/v3
    tags:
      - Reference Data
      - Connection Types
      - Operators
      - Countries
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api
  - name: Open Charge Map POI Submit API
    description: >
      REST API endpoint for contributing new EV charging station data or updating existing
      POI records in the Open Charge Map global registry. Requires an authenticated API key
      associated with a registered Open Charge Map user account. Submitted data is reviewed
      and integrated into the community dataset. Supports adding new charging locations with
      full address, equipment, connection type, and operator details.
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    humanURL: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api
    baseURL: https://api.openchargemap.io/v3
    tags:
      - Submit
      - Contribute
      - Crowdsourced
      - Data Entry
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://openchargemap.org/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/api
  - type: Developer
    url: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/openchargemap/ocm-system
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/openchargemap
  - type: Community
    url: https://community.openchargemap.org/
  - type: Apps
    url: https://openchargemap.org/site/develop/apps
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://openchargemap.org/site/about/terms
  - type: About
    url: https://openchargemap.org/site/about
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/openchargemap-plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/openchargemap-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/openchargemap-finops.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]