I’ve put this as a bug since it’s a .kml file created from an official route. I created a closed polygon in google My Maps, and exported as .kml Submitting that as a new place “British Isles (records)” I get a pause for a bit then “504 Gateway Time-out” It only has a few points on it, I enclose i…

I think it’s because the place you’ve defined is too big at 994,850 km², the limit is about 695,662 km2. Or it contains too many observations (~3,390,000). If it’s for a project you can add multiple existing places that cover the same area. eg: United Kingdom United Kingdom EEZ Ireland and Nort…

I had googled British Isles and it says 315,159 km² so although mine is a little broader I wouldn’t have expected it to go over the limit… If it really is that large, as an important area could it be added? it’s vital for all British uses since we don’t use United Kingdom since flora and fauna igno…

^^^ You can see the British mapping area by this search for Lamium on the BSBI website, it’s a pretty fundamental area to have - https://database.bsbi.org/maps/?taxonid=2cd4p9h.n5n

[image] meteorquake: If it really is that large 994,850 km² is the area of the polygon according to Google Maps

It could be - 315K is probably the land area, whereas the polygon has a lot of sea. In practice almost all records are land-based and so the large size is deceptive in terms of computation and observations represented. If I trimmed it down to just the land area, it would fit within the 600K but then…

Incidentally taking up the adding existing places idea, could I ask how that is done for a traditional project, since it only seems to allow one place entry? That could be a workaround if needed.

Yes, I don’t think that this is a bug but the system working as intended as @lawnranger explained. The general practice here is to use combinations of other existing places, either in a project or a search URL that lead to the result you want. Some of the issues surrounding making places that inclu…

Thanks - I’d read one, but the other thread was new, which I’ve now read. I think there are two issues here - firstly it’s still to be explained how to apply multiple areas to a traditional project, since it only provides an option to select a single area. If someone could explain that, it would be…

[image] meteorquake: how to apply multiple areas to a traditional project You should be able to save a single place, then edit again and add another. It’s not very efficient, but most projects with multiple place rules use Collection projects. Actually, it’s not clear to me why you want a Tr…

The reason for a traditional project here is so that items can be manually added. There can be a great many reason for this. For example this particular one is for collecting unusual plant records in Britain & Ireland that are of good quality (i.e. there is a chance of identifying them), which is us…

Who is going to be allowed to add observations? It sounds like only a few people who will know which observations are “unusual” and “good quality”. If so, you don’t really need place rules, these users seem unlikely to accidentally add observations outside the area of interest.

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cooperj April 6, 2023, 1:12am 14

The polygon seems to exclude most of Alderney when I put it on Google Earth.

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