Hi all, I’m sure everyone is familiar with iNat’s data gaps. I wanted a quick way to prioritise which species I should upload to iNat, so I came up with a small web application does that. The idea is that it helps us record the species are ‘easily missed’ because they’re common and you presume some…

This is an awesome little tool, and I’m definitely going to be making use of it - thank you!

Hi all, I’ve made some changes, more just enhancements and neatening things up. However I did re-implement that if you add custom url parameters that they won’t be discarded if you move the doughnut. Moved things around a bit so hopefully it’s a little more intuitive to use rather than one massive…

That’s marvellous, that is - well done & thanks!

But can you make it to show more? For my home area it says 508 species missing, but it shows only 22 and majority of them are duck or other water species that are like 1:100 chance to see here, so I made a list of species I expect to be findable here and it consists of full 8 species. I’m totally su…

Interesting web thingy! A small bug: “Species…within 1km of where you are, but have been recorded within 5km…” The distances do not update if you change the donut radii Suggestions: The ability to exclude captive/cultivated obs would be great The ‘ancestry’ key in the api data could be used to…

Thank you, @simonrolph ! I found this very useful. It worked very well on my iPad; and the advanced options were very useful. My doughnut score is 15.73%. What this tool documented is that I rarely submit observations for plants/wildlife that I see frequently. I miss things like American Crow, Com…

You can read a lot on the forum on why observing common species is needed, first of all you can’t say it’s common when you have no data about it, and that’s the case for most common speies, next many common species are actually threatened or endangered, their population trend is going down (which is…

One of the things I learned when I first started using iNaturalist is how different patches of “ordinary woods” here in the northeastern United States can be very different from each other in terms of their species composition. For example, in some woods, there is lots of Hobblebush and in others ne…

Thanks all for the interesting discussion, hopefully my little tool can help you find those species that have been “easily missed”. That’s mostly how it got the name, when I started playing around with the doughnut filtering it gave me common species that had been missed. These might not be the abso…

A tool to help you fill local data gaps "Easily Missed"

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jasonhernandez74 December 5, 2022, 1:32pm 63

More precisely, 88% of what people have noticed. Unless there are numerous observations of soil dwelling mites, proturans, pseudoscorpions, nematodes, etc., even the animal diversity is only spottily documented.

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