I am struggling with this. I have location while using app enabled, and yet some of my observations had (have) location missing, and some have inaccurate locations. This was pointed out by someone so I spent half an hour earlier, meticulously zooming right in, selecting the location in the crosshair…

Strange, I updated them again now, and this time, it showed the old location (or missing location) for a short while, but when I refreshed again, it is now showing the updated locations, so does look like some level of caching is going on. Thank you to all who responded, this can now be closed.

One thing that can help (for future observations) is to open a mapping app and check that your device has found a good location fix before making observations. If you are inside a building or a canyon, or for other reasons, it can take a little while for a phone to get a good location fix.

@whitneybrook has just made a tutorial for updating the location (and date if needed) in the iNaturalist app. The link is here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-update-location-date-on-ios-inat-next/68235 It seems you’ve already figured out how to do most of the steps here, so I would just re…

If possible, can you please make a screen recording of you making an observation? You can mail it to help@inaturalist.org .

[image] Thegeezer9999: location still shows missing . . . and the ones I updated have all reverted back to the original inaccurate locations I had a similar problem with locations. [image] Thegeezer9999: What I hoped would be an enjoyable adjunct to my life is already turning out to be v…

I’ve noticed sometimes after I’ve edited a record to move my location circle some distance from where I originally plotted it, the original location still shows up when I look at the map showing all records of that species in the area. It’s a temporary thing and the new location has registered corre…

[image] jnstuart: the original location still shows up when I look at the map showing all records of that species in the area. Maps are cached for about 15 minutes or so, I believe.

Accurate location for observations?

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