I just spent several hours adding IDs and updating atlases for this split: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/139471 Apparently every genus ID was bumped to family despite many observations only being in one atlas. Here is one example observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1…

WAIT. Now there is no atlas for Discus, which I’ve already reported: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/places-removed-from-atlas-after-split/30202 Maybe that’s related. So an even bigger mess because undoing and redoing would mean I’d have to redo the atlas…

yeah, not a bug - all outputs have to be atlased or it goes to the common ancestor

I think this limitation of atlases should be pointed out in the help information for atlases and taxon splits. In practical terms, it means that atlases can’t be used to assist with splits of taxa that have many children. For example, last year I created taxon swaps to move 14 North American taxa f…

[image] rupertclayton: Eventually though I realized that the spilt would apply to every Campanula ID globally, and would only work correctly if I added an accurate atlas for each of the 450 species. Without that, all these IDs would get bumped up to subfamily level. Atlased splits only requir…

[image] maxkirsch: Atlased splits only require atlases of the specific output taxa (not their children as well) That’s useful to know. So, with atlases for the eight new genera, plus an atlas for Campanula I could have committed the split. If I’m following this right, the split should then ha…

Yep, that looks correct :slightly_smiling_face:

All IDs bumped in split despite atlases

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All IDs bumped in split despite atlases

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