Pull up a specific genus or family or order, etc. The tool allows you to circle an area on the map and creates a list of RG species within the circle of that genus or family or order, etc…

I agree that users need a map select tool to query occurrences - such as drawing a polygon or using a laso, in addition to just using the whole map to select within. This would be easy to add to the main map as a dropdown tool. Of course the iNat database might not support selecting by complex geom…

I feel like you can just use a search for this, if I’m correctly understanding your suggestion. You can enter a map boundary (street address, national forest, etc.) in location and then search by the genus, family, etc. with the box checked for RG only. Or if you wanted some sort of weirder location…

Something like this? [x] It seems like a good idea.

You can do it indirectly by creating a place with a boundary encapsulating where you want the search to take place. You can create the place to be enduring (choose the name with some care and thought etc) or you could create a temporary place and then delete it after you have your results.

You can also manually modify the URL to search within a rectangular bounding box. For example, this URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=30.849458&nelng=-94.939413&swlat=30.220087&swlng=-95.792015&place_id=any&taxon_id=45994 produces this search: [boundingbox]

or ditto with a circular option - the url is : https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=-34.35&lng=18.906&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&preferred_place_id=113055&radius=2.7 the radius is in km.

@tiwane Currently if I want this type of info I will generate a “place” and then start a Project and select that place. With that I preview the project and get a list of all species observed and all observers. It has been a while since I did this. If I recall correctly, to get what I want I have…

I would bet this is too strenuous on the iNat servers to implement in the near future. But if not this would be awesome.

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tiwane April 4, 2019, 11:29pm 2

@edLike I’m approving this for now, but can you please add some more details to your original post? I’m not sure exactly what you mean here. It would also be helpful to tell us exactly which maps/pages you would like to use this on.

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