Resolution of lat/long?

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:airplane: Unofficial SDK for FlightRadar24 for Python 3 and NodeJS

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Resolution of lat/long? #55

Closed ipearx closed 10 months ago

ipearx commented 10 months ago

A repeat of issue #31 except I couldn't find an answer. I'm using the Python library.

The 'lat' and long are limited to a couple of decimals: -31.25, 'long': 157.64
I tried using my login credentials and have a business account e.g: fr_api = FlightRadar24API(user = 'my-email', password = 'my-password')
I tried adding 'details = True' to the line: flights = fr_api.get_flights(bounds = bounds, details = True)

Any advice?! Thanks very much, other than that seems to be working well :)

ipearx commented 10 months ago

Oh no I just figured it out: the bigger your circle or area requested, the lower the resolution... This is bad for my use case, I'm storing the data and the users can zoom in later. Any idea what size triggers what resolution?!

ipearx commented 10 months ago

After some testing I found that:

below 120,000m radius will give 4 decimal places.
below 580,000 (roughly) radius will give 3 decimal places.
Above that gives 2 decimal places.
Didn't test for 1 decimal place...

Here's a handy picture to visualise how much land area that is compared to New Zealand... Screenshot 2024-01-02 at 12 12 43 AM from this site https://www.mapdevelopers.com/draw-circle-tool.php

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