Geotagging Charger Stations to see on Android Auto OsmAnd

 Searching for EV charging stations seems as much an art than a science so far. My flexible vehicle display provides searches from the manufacturer, and through Android Auto Google Maps and my installed OSMAND Android app.

What I'd like to see at a minimum I have through my own favorites shared as a KML file over Dropbox. Bit of work, and worth it so far for me.

I found when OsmAnd shows favorites, they are in alphabetical order, and no more than 10 are shown no matter how many are in the KML file. I've split my chargers list by brand in order to view all of them, even in the fractured level way. This example shows only Shell EV stations.

The map is useless, going from Hudson Bay to Venezuela, and there is no way to sort by distance, only name. Clicking on one item gets to navigation, with no map view in between.

Multiple chargers in one spot gets the worst result with OsmAnd Points of Interest for chargers.

You can see 10, but only 4 at once...

Some useful places to avoid, though, in later content.

At least on the POI view a map can appear. Not that you can zoom, pan, or otherwise affect that landscape shown behind the list while in motion. Or stopped at a light, as all of these shots were.

Only one field in the OpenStreetMap data is shown on the favorites list; thus I have refined what that should include, given space, mnemonic devices, and community standards. After I finish "just a couple more" on OSM edits I will reload my local phone map store and see what I've sown.

  

Bake-off - Mapillary and Panoramax

 Comparing 2 photo geolocation upload services, I considered dropping use of Mapillary if an equivalent portal exists beyond Google or Apple photos, first running into an incompatibility of graphic formats. The workaround was an un-edited image.

Panoramax authenticated through OpenStreetMap. 

4 strikes and out. Meanwhile the same image went into Mapillary in parallel.

After figuring out MS Paint edits mangled the GPS tags, the image stuck in Panoramax.

OpenStreetMap, local fork er spork off.

The panoramic image is off with only one in the sequence.

I uploaded an image with a license blurred, and Mapillary blurred it some more. In Panoramax, the plate was not blurred at all. 

The poll I ran heavily favored not using Mapillary. Including links to Mapillary on the main app/map page favors images on that site, though.

Other than the oddity of image-stretching, and the variation in blurring, both seem acceptable. I will try to use Panoramax with a few more EV charging stations, adding more useful details and missing stations.