One of the biggest features I’ve been hoping for in the upcoming app is the ability to save observations for offline reference. I’ve primarily wanted it for my own observations, but being able to save others would be valuable too. When doing field work, there have been many times I’ve wished I coul…

by downloading observations, i assume you mean primarily downloading images. currently, you have 5000+ observations. suppose that each observation has 1 image each @ 3MB. so you’d have to download ~15GB worth of images. then on top of that, you don’t have a map offline, and i’m thinking it’s proba…

[image] pisum: currently, you have 5000+ observations. suppose that each observation has 1 image each @ 3MB. so you’d have to download ~15GB worth of images. I’d presume they’d only want to download a few select observations for reference.

Yep, I was imagining using the polygon or circle tool, similar to the current search function, to download content within an area. I would be more than happy to download a couple GB for a trip, but you’re right, more than 10 or so would be pretty unrealistic. I had not considered that maps would ha…

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Ability to download observations for offline reference

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