Platform(s), website URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/62af6dd1-b0e4-4196-ad8b-a32a3b491d68#gallery Description of need: For Australian species with few sightings and images it would be useful to have access to…

Is this something that is feasible? INat shares with ALA why not set up the reverse? @reiner Have you ever wanted to use ALA images for iNat taxon pages?

I’m not intimate with all the background details, but aiui, ALA stopped accepting direct submissions some years ago when it started running a federated inat instance at inaturalist.ala.org.au, and directed people to submit via inat instead. Clearly it is still aggregating from other sources too - b…

[image] environ: That would start to get a bit tangled if inat stopped being a purely “primary source” - ie. following the chain in this example, an observation gets submitted to NatureMapr, then second sourced by ALA, then imported from there to inat, creating a record which ALA would then want…

Ah cool, I thought I’d come across some ‘orphaned’ images here before, but wasn’t clear on how that worked. I’m definitely all for maximising the benefits of freely licenced records. I just know how hard to untangle things can quickly get if you let them get circular. I wonder if what’s wanted fo…

From my understanding images shown on ALA are open licensed. My request is for linked access to ALA images when editing a taxon page eg- https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/1464132-Cerealces-scutellata You’ll see in this instance it has no default photo. When You click on the “Add One Now” the opt…

When I’m researching and don’t find anything on iNat I may go to ALA and have a look there. But ALA is already populated, getting profile images on iNat is manual so it would only get images from a small number of species of special interest to someone. Also not sure of a huge advantage of being abl…

If the photo licenses are compatible with Wikimedia Commons you can upload them there and then to iNat.

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Feature Requests

tiwane July 20, 2024, 5:17pm 2

(edited topic title to make it an action verb and clear it up a bit)

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Help needed for setting permissions correctly so observations can be uploaded to Atlas of Living Australia General	22	377	October 16, 2024
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Add Atlas of Living Australia as a source for taxon photos

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