Disable "follow-me" viewport

[baerbock]

Recently electricitymap started to change the viewport when selecting a country.

In my opinion it feels awkward when a web app overzealously wants to help the user, so this should be disabled again.

[corradio]

@fbarl I think this is a side effect of re-centering when clicking on a country. Can you help revert the behavior?

[fbarl]

Thanks for reporting the issue @baerbock !

I think this is a side effect of re-centering when clicking on a country. Can you help revert the behavior?

It's very possible #2145 caused an accidental change in the behaviour. However, I'm not really sure how the app was behaving before 🤔

There are two ways one can select the zone that I'm aware of:

a) By clicking on the zones list in the sidebar

b) By clicking on the zone directly in the map

1. Right now the viewport changes in both cases
2. If I removed the observer mentioned in Migrate ZoneList component to React #2145 (comment), the viewport doesn't change in neither case
3. We could make the viewport change only when clicking on the zones list
4. We could make the viewport change only when clicking on the map

@corradio Was (3) what we had before? If we don't want (1), I'd personally like to see us go with either (2) or (3) - there are arguments to be made for both, but I don't have a strong stand and I think both would be fine, so you can make the call :)

[corradio]

Thanks for the write-up. Let's go with (3).
Let's also make sure that the viewpoint is centered on the country when a country is linked to (i.e. when the URL already points to a country)
Thanks!