For the record, back in April 2019 Canonical requested a separate MLS API key to use in geoclue in Ubuntu, and the request was initially acknowledged, but then it was put on hold on Mozilla's end and we never heard back from them, despite a couple of follow-up e-mails.
>From the discussion in the upstream geoclue bug, it looks like the process to request separate keys is now working better, so we should have better luck if/when we issue a new request. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to geoclue-2.0 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826290 Title: geoclue mozilla location api key rate limited Status in geoclue-2.0 package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I am using Ubuntu 19.04 geoclue version: 0.12.99-4ubuntu2 geoclue2 version: 2.5.2-1ubuntu1 The key used by geoclue in ubuntu to access the mozilla location service appears to be rate limited. Here's the relevant lines in /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf # URL to the wifi geolocation service. The key can currenty be anything, just # needs to be present but that is likely going to change in future. url=https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=geoclue The comment is wrong, using an invalid key gives a 400 error. $ curl https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate\?key=random_key {"error":{"code":400,"message":"Missing or invalid API key.","errors":[{"domain":"usageLimits","message":"Missing or invalid API key.","reason":"keyInvalid"}]}}% Using the current key gives a limit reached error $ curl https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate\?key=geoclue {"error":{"code":403,"message":"You have exceeded your daily limit.","errors":[{"domain":"usageLimits","message":"You have exceeded your daily limit.","reason":"dailyLimitExceeded"}]}}% To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geoclue-2.0/+bug/1826290/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
