I would love to have more options for obscuring observations while still allowing an observation to display in the correct general area. I’m open to debate on the right size(s) to make the new options, but somewhere in the range of 200 m - 1 km would be nice. When I make observations at the reserve …

i think it would be nice to be able to obscure to a specific “standard” place. or it would be nice to make some community-created places curated, assigning them to specific people who are known to actively watch over them. then you could allow people to obscure to a curated community-created place, …

Yes, please! A large percentage of my observations end up being shown in the wrong country (that’s country, not county!) when I set the geoprivacy to “obscured”. It would be really nice if I could change the size of the obscuring box from the default ~125,000 acres to something more like 25,000 acre…

I assume you mean observations like this one ? For what it’s worth, the observation will be publicly indexed as being in the accurate district and country: [image] And they’ll show up when searching for observations in those places, eg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6953&user_id=…

@tiwane That’s good to know. I’m glad they still get indexed to the correct places. It would be nice though if you could customize the size of your obscuring boxing in your preferences or something like that. I would definitely choose something much smaller if the choice were available.

Add option for smaller obscuring area

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tiwane March 2, 2020, 8:46pm 8

I’m sorry, but after discussion we’ve decided we won’t provide smaller area options for obscuration.

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Add option for smaller obscuring area

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