Open Charge Map · Example Payload

Reference Data

Example: Retrieve core reference data for decoding POI results

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Reference Data 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

descriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "description": "Example: Retrieve core reference data for decoding POI results",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.openchargemap.io/v3/referencedata/",
    "headers": {
      "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    },
    "query_parameters": {
      "countryid": 2
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "content_type": "application/json",
    "body": {
      "ConnectionTypes": [
        {
          "ID": 25,
          "Title": "Type 2 (Socket Only)",
          "FormalName": "IEC 62196-2 Type 2"
        },
        {
          "ID": 33,
          "Title": "CCS (Type 2)",
          "FormalName": "IEC 62196-3 Configuration FF"
        },
        {
          "ID": 2,
          "Title": "CHAdeMO",
          "FormalName": "IEC 62196-3"
        }
      ],
      "Countries": [
        {
          "ID": 2,
          "ISOCode": "US",
          "Title": "United States"
        }
      ],
      "Operators": [
        {
          "ID": 23,
          "Title": "ChargePoint",
          "WebsiteURL": "https://www.chargepoint.com"
        }
      ],
      "StatusTypes": [
        {
          "ID": 0,
          "Title": "Unknown"
        },
        {
          "ID": 50,
          "Title": "Operational"
        },
        {
          "ID": 75,
          "Title": "Temporarily Unavailable"
        }
      ],
      "UsageTypes": [
        {
          "ID": 0,
          "Title": "Unknown"
        },
        {
          "ID": 1,
          "Title": "Public"
        },
        {
          "ID": 2,
          "Title": "Private"
        }
      ],
      "LevelTypes": [
        {
          "ID": 1,
          "Title": "Level 1 : Low (Under 2kW)",
          "Comments": "120V, AC"
        },
        {
          "ID": 2,
          "Title": "Level 2 : Medium (Over 2kW)",
          "Comments": "240V, AC"
        },
        {
          "ID": 3,
          "Title": "Level 3 : High (Over 40kW)",
          "Comments": "DC Fast Charge"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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