UK electric car charging points

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The openchargemap provides an API and an iframe which can be embedded to display a map with the nearest electric car charging points. The result looks quite decent as an iframe although it doesn’t appear to pick up your coordinates and you have to enter a search post-code. Hoping someone can suggest how to pass the HASS lat-long or postcode?

    panel_iframe:
      pantilt:
        title: 'Electric charging points'
        url: 'https://map.openchargemap.io/?mode=embedded'

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From the API it should be possible to create a sensor component to detect the nearest charging station. I would like this in order to be notified when a close charge point is added. Couldnt figure out the correct API request to get the nearest charge point however, if anyone else does please let me know.
Cheers

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OK figured out how to query the API with a rest sensor. This sensor displays the distance (kM) to the nearest charging point as the crow flies. There is a lot more info returned by the API if anyone is interested in other details about the nearest charging points.

- platform: rest
  resource: https://api.openchargemap.io/v2/poi/?output=json&latitude=51.111&longitude=-0.222&maxresults=10&compact=true&verbose=false
  name: electric_charger_distance
  value_template: '{{ value_json[0].AddressInfo.Distance}}'