After changing boundaries observations stopped to show up in a project

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Hello,

After changing boundaries of one locality (https://www.inaturalist.org/places/lotus-tea) observations (e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181015926) stopped to show up in a project (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/tea-fauna)

Platform: Website
Browser: Chrome

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It looks like the accuracy circle of the observation might just get outside the place boundary. If you changed the boundary recently, observations that used to be entirely inside it might now not be and thus not be included in a project based on that place.

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Thank you! I was thinking on that. Changing observation (gps) would help?

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It is possible to edit location data so that observations fall inside places. However, users shouldn’t enter potentially incorrect locality information just to make an observation shows up in a given place. If a user is certain that they can correctly increase the accuracy of the observation then it’s fine to update the location info.

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Thank you! It’s fine now