The twenty-four chains with a page so far
ShellHow many Shell forecourts Refuelia has actually counted in OpenStreetMap, in which countries, with the date. Filter…
EssoHow many Esso forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap, including Esso Express sites, in which countries, and…
BPHow many BP forecourts Refuelia has counted, in which countries, with the date counted. Includes bp pulse charging…
TotalEnergiesHow many TotalEnergies forecourts Refuelia has counted, including sites still tagged Total, across Europe and Africa,…
ChevronHow many Chevron forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across the United States, Canada and Mexico, and…
OrlenHow many Orlen forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across Poland and Hungary, with the date, and why no…
PemexHow many Pemex forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across Mexico, the date counted, and what the map…
SinopecHow many Sinopec forecourts Refuelia has counted in China, why they are tagged in Chinese characters, and an honest…
Indian OilHow many Indian Oil forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across India, with the date counted, and what…
EngenHow many Engen forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap in South Africa, and why comparing pump prices there…
PertaminaHow many Pertamina forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across Indonesia, with the date, and what a brand…
Circle KHow many Circle K forecourts Refuelia has counted across the Nordics, Ireland and Poland, including the unmanned…
RepsolHow many Repsol forecourts Refuelia has counted, and the actual per-station price each Spanish one charges, from the…
MOLHow many MOL forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, with the date, and…
MobilHow many Mobil forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across the United States and Canada, with the date,…
EniHow many Eni forecourts Refuelia has counted, and what each Italian one actually charges, taken from the Italian…
AralHow many Aral forecourts Refuelia has counted in Germany and Austria, and how German law makes per-station pump…
OMVHow many OMV forecourts Refuelia has counted across Austria, Hungary and Slovenia, when it was counted, and what a…
TexacoHow many Texaco forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across Britain, Ireland and the United States, and…
ARCOHow many ARCO forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across the western United States and Mexico, with the…
CitgoHow many Citgo forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across the United States, the date of the count, and…
ValeroHow many Valero forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap across the United States and Mexico, and what the…
SunocoHow many Sunoco forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap in the United States, when the count was taken, and…
SpeedwayHow many Speedway forecourts Refuelia has counted in OpenStreetMap in the United States, the date counted, and what…
Why every number here says “at least”
The counting works city by city. For each city Refuelia stores the six chains it met most often, and only those it met at least twice. That is enough to describe a city and not enough to describe a country: a chain that is seventh everywhere is invisible in these totals, and a chain that is first in ten cities is counted only in those ten. So the pages say “at least”, and they will keep saying it until the storage changes.
This is the same rule the map applies to itself. Where a saved copy of an area is capped, the panel reads “at least 200 stations” rather than printing the cap as though it were a count. A number that looks complete and is not is worse than a smaller number that is honest about its edges.
What a brand tag is worth
Less than you would think, and that is worth saying on a page organised entirely by brand. A chain name tells you who painted the canopy. It does not tell you the opening hours, which grades are sold, whether a truck fits under the roof, whether the card reader takes fuel cards, or whether anybody has been there this week. All of those live on the individual forecourt, are recorded by volunteers, and are shown per station rather than assumed from the sign.
Where an official government feed publishes pump prices per station — France, Spain, Italy, and Germany once its key is connected — the map shows the real figure with the hour it was set, and points out when a cheaper forecourt is close. Everywhere else it shows no price at all, because a made-up one would be worse than none. See how confidence is worked out, or open the live map.