Parking, charging points and petrol stations: where the data comes from

Which registers supply the car parks, charging points and petrol stations, how often we refresh them, what is missing and how to report a mistake.

5 min readPublished 11 October 2026, checked 11 October 2026

With Find a Car Park in the Netherlands, Find EV Charge Points in the Netherlands and Find a Petrol Station in the Netherlands you can find places near a postcode, an address or a town. Each tool has its own source. This article explains which sources, what we do with the data and what not to expect.

We fetch all three every month, as a complete new copy. A new car park, a changed tariff or a closed petrol station can therefore take up to about a month to show. The distance is as the crow flies, from the centre of the postcode or town; by road it is usually a quarter to a third further.

Parking

The car parks, park-and-ride sites and parking areas come from the National Parking Register (Nationaal Parkeer Register) through Open Data Parking of the RDW, the Dutch vehicle authority. Municipalities (gemeenten) and operators supply the data themselves; the RDW publishes it. The licence is CC0 and we credit Source: RDW Open Data Parking.

Tariff. What one hour of parking costs on a Wednesday around noon, under the paid-parking scheme. A day ticket or a season ticket is not counted. If there are several schemes with a price, we show the lowest.
Height. A stated height below 1.50 m is treated as unknown. Such a low value is often entered without being the real height.
Only what applies now. An abolished area or operator drops out. If a municipality and an operator report the same location, it appears once.
Not included: how many spaces are free right now, on-street parking and permit areas.

Charging points

The public charging points come from DOT-NL, the data platform of the NDW (the Dutch national road traffic data portal) for publicly accessible charging points. It is managed on behalf of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Under an EU regulation (2025/655), operators must supply their data there free of charge. The NDW names no licence of its own. The regulation requires the data to be openly accessible, and we use it with the credit Source: NDW (DOT-NL).

Price. The tariff the operator states itself, per kWh and without a charging card. If a location has several tariffs, we show the lowest, without separate day or night tariffs. With a charging card from another provider your price can differ.
Fast chargers. Points of 50 kW or more.
Merged. If an operator reports the same address several times within 50 metres, as at a charging plaza, it counts as one location.
Not included: whether a charging point is free right now, charging points at homes or on company sites, and tariffs that apply only on certain days or at certain times.

EV Charging Points by Dutch Municipality counts the same locations per municipality, next to the residents and passenger cars from the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) figures.

Petrol stations

There is no government list of all petrol stations. We therefore use OpenStreetMap, the open map that volunteers maintain. The licence is the Open Database License (ODbL) and every result shows © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Fuels and opening hours are shown as volunteers have entered them. If nothing is entered, it is unknown, not none.
Unstaffed. We call a station unstaffed only when it is certain: OpenStreetMap says it is automated or self-service only, or the brand has only unstaffed stations. Those are TinQ, Tango, Firezone and the stations with Express, XPress or Easy in the name, such as Esso Express, Shell Express, AVIA XPress and Q8 Easy. Self-service alone says nothing, because a staffed station is self-service too. We never infer that a station is staffed.
Left out: stations with private access and stations for boats only.
No price per station. Prices per petrol station are not public in the Netherlands. The national average from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) is therefore shown at the top. You can read about it in Pump prices.

What is missing

A new or changed address appears only after the next monthly copy.
Not every municipality or operator reports its car parks and charging points. What is not in the register, we cannot show.
OpenStreetMap is only as complete as the volunteers make it.
Details such as tariffs and opening hours may have changed. On site, the signs apply.

Reporting a mistake

We cannot change a place ourselves: we show what the source says. A correction therefore goes through the source and appears with us after the next monthly copy.

Car park. Report it to the municipality or the operator of the car park. They supply the data to the National Parking Register.
Charging point. Report it to the operator of the charging point.
Petrol station. It can be corrected on openstreetmap.org, where anyone with an account can edit the map.

Missing something, or is our display wrong? Let us know through the contact page. How we update and monitor the data is described in How we keep everything current.

The Sumish editorial team