Getting data for middle of Atlantic Ocean using API. about electricitymaps-contrib HOT 3 CLOSED

Hey, thanks for creating an issue :)

The API will attempt to find the nearest zone to the coordinates supplied if they are not within a known zone.
If the coordinates are more than 50 km away from a known zone (like they clearly are in this case), the API attempts to get the caller location based on the server used to call the API.

So what happens here is that it's trying to guess where you're currently calling from, which might be why it's also changing from time to time depending on your setup.

The API documentation briefly mentions this, but we should probably make it more clear :)

⚠️ Auto fallback: If no zone is detected (or we don't have data for that area), the API will attempt to use your current location based on IP of the caller

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@madsnedergaard Thank you for the clarification, but the behaviour seems like a bug. The magic that the APIs are doing is not helpful in the context where a location is explicitly provided as lat/long or zone. Perhaps the current behaviour could be optional? Asking for data in one location and getting different location data as response definitely feels odd.

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That's a good point, we'll discuss it internally - while I agree with your solution (no server-detection if location is explicitly set), we might have other clients that are actually relying on that functionality. That makes it a bit more tricky to just change, but I'll see what we can do :)

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