Platform(s): website Description of need: When identifying observations, the altidude is ofthen an essential information. Feature request details: Unfortunately iNaturalist doesnt have a feature to get the altitude of the location. It was also decided to not add that feature. There are however th…

The kind folks at Macrostrat implemented that change, so there’s now a link to the Macrostrat map in the map popover on the iNat obs detail page. Does that solve the problem of linking to somewhere that shows the elevation at the observation coodrinates, or does anyone still want a link to Google Ea…

[image] jf920: Unfortunately iNaturalist doesnt have a feature to get the altitude of the location. It was also decided to not add that feature. if iNat staff don’t want to add altitude, i’m not sure why they would want to link to something just to allow someone to lookup elevation. does Goog…

It’s worth keeping in mind that Google Earth altitude information is approximate at best, and often extremely so. The surface terrain layers used by GE for extracting altitude information is crude at best, and wildly inaccurate in some locations. Anywhere where you’re dealing with cliffs and other…

Another option is Caltopo https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=29.73528,-95.42772&z=14&b=t

For my cliff-dwelling Erica halicacaba - thanks https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/102716629 And a kind lower fynbos aloe https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125165888

@pastabaum Thanks for the tip. But it only shows the lines in steep terrain. On flat terrain this is not usable. @pisum I dont think its true that “iNat staff dont want altitude”, its probably just that they decided not to implement it into iNat directly. This feature request is about the website, …

You can add altitude in an observation field: choose one:: https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields?utf8=✓&q=altitude&commit=Search

[image] jf920: to get the altitude, i know there are countless ways to do that, but this feature request is specifically about making it convenient install an extension in your browser to redirect URLs based on specific rules, set up a rule to redirect the Google Maps link to your URL of choi…

I know, but one first needs to get the data from somewhere

Just an uber-pedantic note to say that altitude is not all that useful, unless one is identifying birds. If one is trying to be precise: Altitude = height above the ground (in the air) Elevation = height above sea level (air, ground or underground) You can have negative altitudes (depth) on high…

I think it is a better idea to automatically add the elevation ( or altitude) to an observation (field) then adding an url to the observation.

Add a link to Google Earth for altitude information

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tiwane February 3, 2023, 9:37pm 21

@jf920, just nudging you here to see what you think. You can read more about this here.

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Add a link to Google Earth for altitude information

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