Sometimes people have “establishing shots” of areas that they’re working in to show an animal habitat, or pictures of those squares botanists use during a survey, on the survey field. Sometimes there are a lot of submissions in a series. Typically there are a lot of disparate species per shot, with …

Categorization could be nice for “traces” vs. the actual organism as well, which I think I’ve seen requests for occasionally. I’ve been reviewing a lot of old mammal observations recently and there are tons of tracks, scat, claw marks, nest holes, and so on.

It would be nice if the Android version provided a ‘survey’ mode, where you can group observations together, to indicate that you expect them all to be same species. Then, identifiers should be able to review all photos of the group of observations at once to confirm that they’re all the same specie…

@j-k we use a field for grouping observations of different life stages for the same organism, such as lepidoptera when raising on… called “similar observation set” and we use the first observation number as the key to link them. Then following “view with same field and value” (or some such wording) …

@kiwifergus Thanks for your reply. Are you able to explain in a bit more detail the steps to use the function you’ve described? Is there a set of instructions somewhere online?

[image] lotteryd: Sometimes people have “establishing shots” of areas that they’re working in to show an animal habitat, or pictures of those squares botanists use during a survey, on the survey field. @charlie from the OPs first post and in relation to the title. He refers to “Survey” photos…

hmm, i think i got my threads crossed with that last post or something, sorry. I deleted it, mostly to see what would happen…

[image] j-k: @kiwifergus Thanks for your reply. Are you able to explain in a bit more detail the steps to use the function you’ve described? Is there a set of instructions somewhere online? I replied by email, as a way of both explaining by example, as well as to test “reply by email” to this…

… and keep in mind I have only used the “Similar observation set” via the website, not using the android app… so it would be good to hear back how it works with the app (if at all).

[image] kueda: So, what Tony said, but to add, this also, maybe individual photos need their own DQA, or, my preferred alternative, some kind of categorization scheme, which could also handle other things like anatomy (wing detail vs full body), scale (fruit body vs spores), preservation state (…

there’s been what i interpreted as a pretty strict rule against putting other people’s sketches or photos in observations, even if open source. I agree with it for what it’s worth, for reasons ranging from messing with the algorithm and taxon photos to things that mess with the annotations/phenology…

Add a DQA choice for "survey" photos

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Suggestion on how to include habitat images General recommendations	32	3905	March 29, 2024
Reword DQA “Evidence related to a single subject” to "A single taxon is consistent in all evidence" Feature Requests	39	1217	September 30, 2024
Observers Mocking Identifiers? General	52	4068	September 6, 2023
New DQA: Does "Evidence related to a single subject" mean the same individual is in all photos? General	99	3437	March 27, 2024
Easy way to mark multiple-species observations Feature Requests implemented	215	13547	March 24, 2024

Add a DQA choice for "survey" photos

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