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…

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?

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!

Accuracy by place

Feature Requests

tiwane February 27, 2020, 1:32am 9

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

Topic		Replies	Views
Accuracy polygon Feature Requests	9	1135	September 5, 2019
Location accuracy for 'places' General	9	313	August 5, 2024
Alarming location accuracy issue General	46	1466	January 15, 2025
Editing Pre-existing Location on iNat General	28	2673	March 15, 2020
Location Accuracy too easily bypassed? General	41	3673	February 13, 2021

Accuracy by place

Related topics