When I go through local observations I will annotate what I can eg organism, alive, green leaves, flowers etc. The basic very obvious things that you don’t need much knowledge for. But I do ask, does anyone use these? Is there any benefit to me bothering to do so apart from reminding myself I have a…

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-annotations-correctable-not-just-marked-disagree/34660 Under Review. Since August 2022. 110 votes. 1.6K views

[image] ceiseman: Seems like the link from the explore module should take you to the same thing! It does?

What the heck… It didn’t a minute ago, I swear!

[image] spiphany: It is currently only possible to disagree with annotations, but not to correct them or suggest an alternative. The best you can do is comment to the observer or annotator asking them to change it. There is an active feature request to make annotations work more like IDs, with a…

Thank you for this discussion! I really enjoy annotating, it’s a satisfying job for my mind, and I’m glad to know it’s useful. And the link to the shortcuts has made the whole process easier. Thanks!

I’ve just gone through all the Vanellus observations in my Territory and I am surprised that people don’t annotate obvious chicks and eggs. It is frustrating that often there is a family photo and someone has annotated the adult because you can’t add a juvenile then. I do wish people would annotate…

When there’s a family photo, I always annotate the baby as a priority - is that best? I wish people would crop photos and separate female and male birds when it’s obvious!

Welcome to the forum! This is when observation fields and projects can help. There are projects for multiple sexes and for multiple life stages.

[image] donna165: It is frustrating that often there is a family photo and someone has annotated the adult because you can’t add a juvenile then. Since iNat records an encounter with an organism, observations with juveniles and adults in the same photo can be duplicated, each with a different…

When identifying I often filter by sex or life stage. It helps that with hoverflies in Europe an increasingly good proportion of observations have these annotations. I find it easier to only think about the criteria for identifying one type of thing at a time. I would like it if it were easier to …

Adding annotations - does anyone use them? - #93 by bouteloua - General

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