Could you live with an EV at this address?
Not whether a plug is free right now, which changes by the minute and which PlugShare already answers. This is the question you ask before you buy: what charging exists around a home, a workplace, or a relative's place, how far away it is, and whether there is a second option when the first one is busy.
Anywhere in Canada. A nearby intersection or a postal code works as well as an exact street address.
This is not a live availability map
Nothing here says whether a charger is plugged in right now, working, or queued. That needs a live feed from each network, and this site does not have one. PlugShare and the individual network apps do, and they are the right tools once you own the car. This page is for the decision before that.
Why it counts sites rather than guessing at how busy they are
Occupancy cannot be worked out from static data, so this does not pretend to. What can be worked out is exposure, and before buying that is the more useful number anyway. Six sites within 10 km means a busy one is an inconvenience. One site within 40 km means it is the whole plan. That is the difference this page tries to make visible.
Overnight parking decides most of it
No dataset records whether a given address has a driveway, which is why the question is asked rather than answered. If the answer is a condo or a street, the guides on charging without a driveway and charging at a cottage cover the approaches that actually work, and the capacity calculator answers the objection a condo board usually raises first.
What the numbers do not cover
Charger counts are sites and ports, not reliability: a station listed here may be slow, aging, or frequently out of service, and the dataset does not say. Level 1 and Level 2 are counted separately from fast charging because they are not substitutes. Electricity prices are provincial averages rather than your utility's rate. For the province-wide picture see public charging by province, and for what a charge costs where you live, the cost map.
What happens to the address you type
It is sent to this site, which passes it to an OpenStreetMap geocoder to turn it into coordinates. It is not stored, not logged, and not put in the page URL. The charger lookup itself runs here, against a dataset that holds no station names or street addresses at all.