This feature request has appeared in the forum already under other forms. E.g.: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/accuracy-polygon/6186/8 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/mark-a-line-on-a-trail-as-an-option-instead-of-a-circle-for-location/2551/5 In both cases the request was dismissed as difficult…

Yes of course otherwise the problem wouldn’t be there! Old and new photos without GPS data (potentially several 1000s of observations).

@frahome If I understand your request correctly, instead of specifying the observation “accuracy” using its point location and a distance radius around that point (creating a circle polygon), you are asking for the option to choose one of the existing places containing the observation point, to serv…

@jdmore Yes that is correct and yes those are some of the potential issues indeed!

I don’t think we’ll move forward with this, it would be a pretty big change to the way we record location data.

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tiwane February 20, 2020, 5:55am 3

iNat locations are not place dependent, they’re really about coordinates and an accuracy/precision circle. Are you uploading older photos that lack GPS data?

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