Open Charge Map · Example Payload

Geo Bounding Box Search

Example: Search for EV charging stations within a geographic bounding box

Electric VehiclesEV ChargingCharging StationsPoints of InterestOpen DataGeospatialTransportationClean EnergyCrowdsourcedRegistry

Geo Bounding Box Search is an example object payload from Open Charge Map, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

descriptionrequestnotes

Example Payload

{
  "description": "Example: Search for EV charging stations within a geographic bounding box",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.openchargemap.io/v3/poi/",
    "headers": {
      "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    },
    "query_parameters": {
      "output": "json",
      "boundingbox": "(51.4,-0.3,51.6,0.1)",
      "maxresults": 50,
      "levelid": 3,
      "statustypeid": 50,
      "compact": true,
      "verbose": false
    }
  },
  "notes": "Returns up to 50 DC fast chargers (Level 3) that are operational within the London area bounding box"
}