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Change charger markers
Use more or less lightnings to indicate charging speed and colors for the status of the charger makes it more intuitive
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Lightnings
- One lightning: <11kW
- Two lightnings: ≥11kW and <50kW
- Three lightnings: ≥50kW and <150kW
- Four lightnings?: ≥150kW
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Colors
- Green: operational
- Blue: in use
- Orange: partly operational
- Red: not operational
- Gray: unknown status or not working right now (planned ot temporarily unavailable)
Example icons:
| Operational (without automated status) semi-fast charger
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Currently in use with automated status slow charger
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Partly operational semi-fast charger
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| Not operational fast charger
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Planned for future date
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Temporarily unavailable
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Seems good, but the icons will be very small on some devices, our icons are generated from an SVG template: https://github.com/openchargemap/ocm-docs/tree/master/Branding/batch-scripts - the aim there is to have a minimal amount of SVG manipulation so they can't go out of sync with each other. It's been years since they were updated however.
Red doesn't work for me for non-operational as it's a bit too much like a power indicator, greyed out is better for non-operational or temporarily unavailable. Perhaps planned for future date could be a calendar icon?
Changing away from Orange for rapid chargers is problematic as it's kind of a defacto standard shared by plugshare, so the mindshare is already there.
We don't generally have realtime status, so the in-use one would currently be redundant for us.
I do agree its difficult to visually distinguish power levels, and just putting a number doesn't work because it looks like an equipment quantity. There is a quite a lot of prior art for this now, we should take stock of what other people are doing before deciding.