One thing which would be really nice is to see where a taxon has been searched for but not found. I haven’t tried it, but I’m betting it won’t work like this as things are, but what we need is to be able to put a 0 (zero) into the observation field ‘count’ and have that observation shown on the taxo…

Please give https://www.inaturalist.org/trips a look. It was designed to enable recording presence/absence data

yep, just grab the lat/lons rendered here https://www.inaturalist.org/trips/tabulate?filters[taxon_id]=36204 or in JSON format https://www.inaturalist.org/trips/tabulate.json?filters[taxon_id]=36204 and plug them into your favorite mapping software

I meant map them on iNat (=my favourite mapping software!)

oh, has this been developed further? I feel like it was less fleshed out last time I tried it. Definitely worth trying out again at some point, maybe for things like inventory of plants in a natural community or a discrete wetland. itw ould be neat to get that functionality into the app someday… kin…

[image] charlie: there isn’t really any time of year you can literally identify every plant species The absence of a species at a time when it’s expected would be helpful in tracking how climate change is affecting flora and fauna.

Probably not that helpful (too many potential confounding factors). It may be more helpful for getting climate change funding, though! :)

[image] About the Feature Requests category - please read before posting! Try to use an action verb in the topic title. So rather than just “Extraterrestrial Observations” you should write “Allow Extraterrestrial Observations”. @stephen_thorpe if you want to keep this request open, would you m…

looks like trips might not work well with (auto-)obscured observations, which i suppose is good and bad

@tiwane I didn’t open the request! Someone else split it off from another thread in which it was considered to be “off-topic”!

The simplest solution is the best. We have an observation field ‘count’. There is no reason not to enter 0 into that field, except that we don’t want the obs to show on the map in the same form as a >0 count.

Ah OK. Will I’ll change the subject.

Allow users to record absence data

Feature Requests

tiwane May 7, 2019, 11:00pm 14

@stephen_thorpe if you want to keep this request open, would you mind changing the subject to an action verb?

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Allow users to record absence data

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