I have sat on the fence long enough with the route planner. My original intention was to develop the planner to incorporate all the functions needed for an effective route planner for electric cars. I published the site (see: http://www.evzone.org.uk/planner/ )and made available a prototype version that included probably about 50% of what I thought it … Continue reading EV Route Planner – Now Open Source
Many of you will now have had a chance to try out the prototype EV Route Planner at: http://www.evzone.org.uk/planner/ This was a proof of concept for a future version that I thought I would be able to develop some time this year. I hope you have found it useful so far 🙂 I have now … Continue reading The future of the EV Route Planner
Until now I have used Google Maps for the display of the map and route for the EV Zone Route Planner. I have also used the Google APIs to geocode and back-geocode addresses and to calculate the route between the start and destination. All this Google niceness is free of any charges whilst the use … Continue reading I love Google but…
I am using the Google API features to bring you routing and geocoding functions. For small web sites these services are free but there are limits to those free allowances. Once you go over those allowances Google will block the application until the next day when a new allowance is permitted. As a result of … Continue reading EV Route Planner – 10 Waypoint Limit
Great News! The next version of the planner is now out and it is a big update. Until now the only stops you could enter into the planner were stops at charging stations. This was fine for basic route planning but there were a few scenarios that you couldn’t plan. Now you can add stops … Continue reading EV Route Planner – 0.8a – Non-Charging Stops
Although there is more to do before I am happy to launch the Planner I think from the feedback I have had to date, it is fair to say that it is looking very promising. So I thought I’d list a few things I am planning… just to let you know the direction I intend … Continue reading EV Route Planner – Wish List
Now we are moving on with the planner development you will want to feedback comments, bug reports, requests for new features etc and I am really looking forward to you all doing that. Sometimes it is difficult to hear comments from others especially when it is your “baby” they are talking about and, potentially, criticising. … Continue reading EV Route Planner – Feedback and Comments
I saw the following post on Speak EV… Just has a play with the latest version and was intrigued by the way the options operate. Initially I put in a range of 75 miles from 100% and changed the miles per kwh to 3.5 as that is my long term average. This gave me a … Continue reading EV Route Planner – Usable Energy Calculation
Version 0.7b of the planner introduced the elevation chart. This video is a brief run through of how I would use the chart and also some hints at how future versions might develop it further. Tip: Watch it full screen to see the details 🙂 I also need some info from you… see the end … Continue reading EV Route Planner – Elevation Chart
Just a quick note to let you know what has been happening with the EV Route Planner recently… For a while development on the Planner was halted whilst I investigated the data quality on Open Charge Map to determine if I was happy using OCM data. I didn’t want to use OCM data if I … Continue reading EV Route Planner – Update
