# Open Charge Map

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/openchargemap/  
**Website:** https://openchargemap.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 35.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 56.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 16.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Open Charge Map POI API** — 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/long...
- **Open Charge Map Reference Data API** — REST API endpoint returning core reference data used for interpreting POI results, including connection types, charging levels, operators, countries, status types, usage types, ...
- **Open Charge Map POI Submit API** — 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 associ...
- **Open Charge Map Comment API** — The Comment API from Open Charge Map — 1 operation(s) for comment.
- **Open Charge Map Mediaitem API** — The Mediaitem API from Open Charge Map — 1 operation(s) for mediaitem.
- **Open Charge Map Openapi API** — The Openapi API from Open Charge Map — 1 operation(s) for openapi.
- **Open Charge Map Poi API** — The Poi API from Open Charge Map — 1 operation(s) for poi.
- **Open Charge Map Profile API** — The Profile API from Open Charge Map — 1 operation(s) for profile.
- **Open Charge Map Referencedata API** — The Referencedata API from Open Charge Map — 1 operation(s) for referencedata.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Openchargemap Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Openchargemap Authentication** — apiKey/http · 3 schemes
- **Openchargemap Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Openchargemap Plans**

## Tags

Electric Vehicles, EV Charging, Charging Stations, Points of Interest, Open Data, Geospatial, Transportation, Clean Energy, Crowdsourced, Registry

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/openchargemap/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.