Public car parks with no charger nearby

What it does

Every month: the public car parks and parking garages in your city, each with the public charging stations within 1 km from Open Charge Map, the ones with the fewest first, on a map for the transport team planning new chargers.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Vancouver, find parking lots and parking garages in the area, count the EV charging stations within 1 km of each place, sort them by ev_stations and keep the top 30, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Drivers will switch to electric cars when they can charge where they park. The car parks with no charger close by are where new ones help most.

Who it is for

Government & smart cities. Municipalities, agencies and city teams planning services and keeping residents safe and informed. Every use case for government & cities

Best use cases

• A city transport team
• A regional climate office
• A charging operator bidding for city sites

What each run gives you

• A map
• An email

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. Our cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. Public car parksxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
4. Chargers within 1 kmxMap data · EV chargingPublic charging stations for electric vehicles from Open Charge Map, the open, worldwide register: around each incoming place with counts (stations, charge points, fast stations, the highest power, the nearest and the main operators), or the stations themselves around places, in the Area of interest or around a point, each with its operator, connectors, power, status and address.
5. The fewest chargers firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
6. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
7. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.