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feat(ev): use the BNetzA Ladesäulenregister for Germany instead of Open Charge Map - #143

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Summary

Germany's EV chargers now come from the BNetzA Ladesäulenregister, the register every
operator of a publicly accessible charge point must file into under §5 Ladesäulenverordnung.
It replaces Open Charge Map as the default German EV source: official instead of
crowdsourced, ~74,000 locations instead of a fraction of that, no API key, no signup.
CC BY 4.0 with the attribution "Bundesnetzagentur.de" (added to the legal modal).

Nothing changes for self-hosters who do nothing: Germany switches to BNetzA on the next
scrape. PUMPERLY_DE_EV_SOURCE=ocm keeps Open Charge Map.

Design notes for the reviewer

  • Merge key == externalId. Rows are per facility, so one garage is five rows. They are
    merged on a 5-decimal coordinate key (bnetza-<lat>_<lon>) and that key is also the id.
    It must be the same function: base.run() upserts 500 rows per INSERT ... ON CONFLICT,
    and Postgres rejects the statement with a 21000 cardinality violation if two rows share a
    conflict target. On the real file 1,136 coordinates carry two street spellings.
  • Staleness sweep. base.run() never garbage-collects EV rows, and a coordinate-derived
    id churns when an operator corrects its position. run() therefore deletes rows not
    touched by the current run and retires the ocm- rows for Germany. Both sweeps are gated
    on a database-counted floor, PUMPERLY_BNETZA_MIN_STATIONS (default 10,000), so a
    degraded fetch can never wipe a working map.
  • No backfill period, unlike the REVE handover (feat(ev): use Spain official charger registry instead of crowdsourced data #122, fix(ev): stop a manual scraper run from undoing the Spain EV handover #124). The register arrives complete
    in one daily file, so Open Charge Map stops for Germany on the first healthy run.
  • Strict parsing. Coordinates use a decimal regex (not z.coerce.number(), which turns
    a blank cell into Null Island) and a padded German bbox. Columns are resolved by header
    name, so an upstream schema change fails the run instead of swapping lat/lon.

Data source caveat

The scraper fetches https://lade.info/data/stationen_XXXX.txt, a daily ~19 MB TSV
re-export of the register maintained by lade.info, not bundesnetzagentur.de itself. The
official download is a monthly CSV whose filename changes every release, which does not
suit an unattended daily scraper. If you would rather depend only on the official file,
I am happy to switch the fetch and add a filename discovery step in a follow-up.

Env vars

Variable Default Purpose
PUMPERLY_DE_EV_SOURCE bnetza Set to ocm to keep Open Charge Map for Germany
PUMPERLY_BNETZA_MIN_STATIONS 10000 Safety floor below which no rows are retired

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Germany’s official BNetzA Ladesäulenregister as the default EV charging-station source.
    • Improved German station coverage with validation, duplicate merging, and stale-data cleanup.
    • Added an option to continue using OpenChargeMap for Germany.
    • Ensured only one German EV data source runs at a time.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the new source, configuration options, safety threshold, and data attribution.
    • Added BNetzA credit and a charging-map link to the legal sources list.

The alignment test checks that every EV_XX scraper key appears in all
three tables: the interval defaults and the factory map in
instrumentation.ts, and SCRAPERS in the CLI. Its regexes matched only
\`EV_\` plus a two-letter country code, so a key with a source suffix such
as EV_ES_REVE stopped matching at \`EV_ES\`, found no \`:\` after it, and was
silently dropped from the comparison. The guard was blind to exactly the
country-specific official registries that are most likely to be added to
one table and forgotten in another.

The regexes now accept an optional _SOURCE suffix. Nothing changes for
the plain EV_XX keys.
The Ladesäulenregister is the register every operator of a publicly
accessible charge point in Germany must file into under §5
Ladesäulenverordnung, so it is authoritative where Open Charge Map is
crowdsourced, and several times larger (~74,000 locations). It is
published as one daily bulk TSV, needs no API key and no signup, and is
CC BY 4.0 with the attribution string "Bundesnetzagentur.de".

This commit adds the scraper and its tests only. Nothing imports it yet,
so behaviour is unchanged; the wiring follows in the next commit.

Two things shape the implementation:

Rows are per charging facility, not per location, so one garage is five
identical rows. Those are merged on a 5-decimal (~1 m) coordinate key,
and that same key is the externalId. It has to be the same function:
base.run() upserts in 500-row batches with a single multi-row INSERT ...
ON CONFLICT, which Postgres rejects with a 21000 cardinality violation
when two rows in one statement share a conflict target. On the real file
1,136 coordinates carry two street spellings, so keying the id on
anything coarser than the merge key would mint exactly that many
duplicate ids and silently discard whole batches.

base.run() only orphan-cleans price-less fuel stations, so EV rows are
never garbage-collected. A derived id churns whenever an operator
corrects its coordinates, and each churned id would leak a permanent
pin. run() therefore sweeps rows not touched by the current run, and
retires the Open Charge Map rows for Germany that this source replaces.
Both sweeps are gated on a database-counted floor
(PUMPERLY_BNETZA_MIN_STATIONS, default 10,000) so a degraded fetch can
never delete a working map.

Coordinates are validated with a strict decimal regex rather than
z.coerce.number(), which would turn a blank cell into Null Island, and
rejected outside a padded German bounding box. Columns are resolved by
header name so an inserted column upstream fails the run instead of
swapping latitude and longitude.
Germany now has two EV sources: Open Charge Map (EV_DE, crowdsourced,
needs an API key) and the BNetzA Ladesäulenregister (EV_DE_BNETZA,
official, keyless, several times larger). They must never both run. The
two overlap heavily, so running both double-pins the country, and once
the BNetzA scraper has retired the ocm- rows a single stray Open Charge
Map run puts every one of them straight back, because nothing
garbage-collects EV rows.

BNetzA wins by default: it is official, complete, and needs no signup.
PUMPERLY_DE_EV_SOURCE=ocm keeps Open Charge Map instead. The rule lives
in one function, germany-ev-source.ts, called by both the scheduler and
the manual CLI, for the same reason as spain-ev-source.ts: two copies
would drift, and the drift is silent.

Unlike Spain's REVE handover there is no backfill period. The register
arrives complete in one daily file, so Open Charge Map stops being
scraped for Germany and its existing German rows are retired on the
first healthy run. Naming EV_DE explicitly on the CLI still runs it.

The legal modal gains the CC BY 4.0 attribution the licence requires.
README: list the Ladesäulenregister alongside Open Charge Map and Mapa
REVE in the features and EV sources table (CC BY 4.0, attribution
"Bundesnetzagentur.de"), explain the default switch for Germany and the
PUMPERLY_DE_EV_SOURCE=ocm opt-out, and add PUMPERLY_DE_EV_SOURCE and
PUMPERLY_BNETZA_MIN_STATIONS to the environment variable table.

.env.example: the same two variables with their defaults and the reason
the safety floor exists.
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The PR adds Germany’s BNetzA charging register as an EV data source. It parses and merges register rows, gates cleanup operations, selects one Germany source for scheduled and manual runs, updates registry detection, and documents the configuration and data source.

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Germany EV source

Layer / File(s) Summary
BNetzA parsing and ingestion
src/scrapers/bnetza.ts, src/scrapers/bnetza.test.ts
Adds TSV parsing, coordinate validation, station merging, source metadata, download handling, malformed-input handling, and tests for these behaviors.
Gated station cleanup
src/scrapers/bnetza.ts, src/scrapers/bnetza.test.ts
Gates stale BNetzA deletion and German OpenChargeMap retirement on the number of stations refreshed by the current run. Cleanup errors are added to the scraper result.
Germany source selection and registry wiring
src/scrapers/germany-ev-source.ts, src/scrapers/germany-ev-source.test.ts, src/instrumentation.ts, src/scrapers/cli.ts, src/scrapers/cli.test.ts, .env.example, README.md, src/components/nav/legal-modal.tsx
Registers EV_DE_BNETZA, selects it by default, supports the ocm override, updates EV key detection, and documents the source, license, and configuration variables.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 25ba9

A fractional station threshold can remove Germany’s existing charger data after an empty fetch, so the cleanup guard should be corrected before merge.

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In `@README.md`:
- Line 51: Update the “EV charging stations” README entry to state that Open
Charge Map covers the remaining supported countries, while preserving the
official-source overrides for Spain via Mapa REVE and Germany via BNetzA
Ladesäulenregister.

In `@src/components/nav/legal-modal.tsx`:
- Line 162: Move the Ladesäulenregister attribution text in the legal modal to
the custom i18n resources, add the corresponding translation key for every
supported locale, and render it through the component’s existing useI18n()/t()
flow while preserving the link and formatting.

In `@src/scrapers/bnetza.ts`:
- Around line 379-385: The station-count gate in the BNetzA refresh flow must
use only rows refreshed by the current run, not all matching persisted rows.
Update the logic around the counts query and stored threshold check to rely on
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The safety floor counted every bnetza- row in the table, old and new alike.
With 74,000 rows from yesterday and a degraded fetch that refreshed only 42,
the count still cleared PUMPERLY_BNETZA_MIN_STATIONS, so the stale sweep
deleted the 74,000 and the retirement sweep dropped the OpenChargeMap rows,
leaving Germany with the degraded dataset.

The count now carries the same updated_at cutoff the stale sweep uses, so
only rows written by this run can vouch for it and every row sits on exactly
one side of the cutoff. Adds a regression test with 74,000 stale rows and 42
refreshed ones that fails against the previous query.
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🟠 Major · Reject fractional floors below one. · bnetza.ts:74

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Reject fractional floors below one.

With PUMPERLY_BNETZA_MIN_STATIONS=0.5, this sets MIN_STATIONS to 0. An empty successful fetch then passes the cleanup gate because 0 < 0 is false. The sweep can delete all stale BNetzA rows and all German ocm- rows. Treat a floored value below 1 as invalid and fall back to 10_000. Add a regression test.

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 const MIN_STATIONS =
-  Number.isFinite(rawMinStations) && rawMinStations > 0 ? Math.floor(rawMinStations) : 10_000;
+  Number.isFinite(rawMinStations) && rawMinStations >= 1 ? Math.floor(rawMinStations) : 10_000;
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`PUMPERLY_BNETZA_MIN_STATIONS=0.5` floored to `0`, and `refreshed < 0` is never true, so the guard on the BNetzA scraper's two destructive sweeps (stale-row prune, Open Charge Map retirement) was silently gone for anyone who set a fractional or zero floor. `base.run()` still blocks a truly empty fetch, so this needed a misconfigured floor plus a degraded fetch to bite, but a guard that can be turned off by a typo is not a guard.

Values that floor below 1 now fall back to the 10,000 default, the same as a non-numeric value. The regression test covers `0.5`, `0` and `-3` and fails against the previous line.

Also fixes the README feature bullet that still claimed Open Charge Map covers every country (Germany and Spain use their official registries).

Follow-up to #143, from CodeRabbit's post-merge finding.
GeiserX added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2026
…tors (#145)

Sharing an EV charger produced `/es?station=ES:reve-…&lat=…&lng=…` with no fuel. A fresh visitor opened that on the default fuel (Diesel A); the viewport fetch is fuel-filtered, so the charger never loaded and the deep-link resolver, which only matches loaded features, never opened the popup. The visitor saw diesel stations around the spot with no hint anything failed. Since #143 every German charger link is affected too.

Fixes #129 the way the issue sketched it:

- `buildStationQuery` carries the fuel the station was shared from (popup share/copy, and the URL the app writes on selection).
- `readDeepLink`'s station branch validates and applies `fuel` exactly like the route branch already did.

Links without a fuel behave as before (default fuel), and an invalid code is ignored. Regression tests on all three layers (URL helpers, popup share link, HomeClient deep-link read); each was checked to fail against the unfixed code.
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