What it is
One fuel with four names. LPG on the pump, autogas in the UK and Australia, GPL in France, Italy and Romania, автогаз across eastern Europe. It is propane and butane under mild pressure, sold as a liquid, and a petrol car needs a conversion to run on it.
Why finding it is the hard part
Every LPG map is built from what somebody once recorded, and stations drop the fuel quietly. Forum threads going back years describe the same thing: a chain removes LPG from hundreds of forecourts, and the map that everyone uses still shows them a year later. You drive twenty miles to a green dot and find a bare slab of concrete where the tank was.
What the number above does not say
It counts stations that somebody tagged fuel:lpg=yes in OpenStreetMap, inside the cities Refuelia counts. A station nobody tagged is not in it, so the real figure is higher — we would rather undercount than claim a pump nobody recorded. And a tag is not a promise: it says the pump was there when somebody last looked, not that it is there today.
So what does this map do differently
It refuses the hopeful green dot. Where a driver has confirmed a station, the pin carries the time they did and that a person said it. Where nobody has checked, it says exactly that instead of showing you a colour that implies otherwise. Missing information stays visibly missing, which is less satisfying to look at and considerably more useful at a quarter tank.
Adapters, if you are crossing borders
Four fittings are in use across Europe — ACME, dish, bayonet and the Italian dish variant — and no single one works everywhere. The Netherlands and the UK share a bayonet; Germany, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Switzerland want ACME. Carry the set. This map does not track which fitting a station has, and will not pretend to.
Using it on the road
Filter the map to LPG and every pin left is a station somebody recorded as selling it. Reading the map needs no account. If you are standing at the pump anyway, confirming that it still sells LPG is one tap and stays anonymous — and it is the only thing that keeps a map like this from rotting the way the others did.