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.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  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.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  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.

    '
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  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: kin@apievangelist.com