One thing I like tackling on iNat is “out of place” observations - mis-IDs of things way out of their expected ranges, which I put a proper (or at least leading towards correct) ID on if they’re incorrect. However, the only way I know to look for these is to search for observations of a specific taxon and then scan the map for anomalies, so most of the time my discovery of these is incidental while looking at something else. Is there a way to search for observations that are out-of-place according to their known/predicted occurrences? I know the iNat API has some search options that aren’t exposed on the official website from my previous tinkering with it, so I’m not afraid to use that if necessary.
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You might try this: https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/99727-using-the-geomodel-to-highlight-unusual-observations
Here’s the Identify link, you can filter further by taxa, place, etc: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=geo_score&order=asc&with_private_location=false&expected_nearby=false&acc_below_or_unknown=1000
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Exactly what I was looking for - thank you!
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