Add option to include captive observations in seasonality charts

Feature Requests
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Platform(s): All (although desktop might be most reasonable since it already has a settings cog)

URLs : https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/* (e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47124-Magnoliopsida)

Description of need:
It is sometimes helpful to see what the seasonality / seasonal plant phenology is of a garden plant. However, there’s seemingly no way to do this currently, as the seasonality charts exclude all “casual” observations.

Feature request details:
Add an option in the seasonality graph’s settings cog to include captive observations in the graphs. (Maybe they could be represented as a dotted line or something? Or the combined captive + non-captive count could be a dotted line above the solid non-captive line?)

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Cultivated plants are not always garden plants. They can be indoors, or in a greenhouse, with heating and lighting, and then the seasonality of these plants is meaningless.

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I’ve thought about this too. I think the application is so niche that iNat staff will probably never do it; someone with some skills could make an external tool to display that though. I’ve actually done the same thing with garden plants within areas of the Southeast.

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you can do this using iNat’s experimental comparison tool:

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my histogram page isn’t as pretty and doesn’t have as nice a user interface, but it gives you the underlying numbers: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_observation_histogram?taxon_id=47124&interval=month_of_year

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Wild plants can also be indoors or in a greenhouse though. You can also have wild plants in odd microclimates that can throw off your charts as well. No datasets are ever going to “perfect”.

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I had no idea this existed, thank you!

And yeah, I recognize that this is relatively niche – I figured it was worth at least requesting, though.

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You can vote for the request if you like. The system doesn’t automatically add your vote to it, even if you created it.

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