Lately it seems like every day the large pile is getting a little smaller, by an amount that would take the help of multiple people per day. Thanks everyone! The large pile by my current reference: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&per_page=100&iconic_taxa=unknown&orde…

There’s already a Feature Request for bulk IDs I think

[image] astra_the_dragon: I usually sort by Random whenever doing coarse IDs. This also means that I never have to see 10 of the same thing in a row. In contrast, I usually like to see things as a group because I can get a sense of the context. Like, 100 observations of some insect or frog al…

Well, that was not so gracious of them.

When I was a child, I liked much to be asked to bring a few leaves of different shapes to the school. I would enjoy to do it now again… with leaves of the most indescribable shapes!

For faster IDs, I made a console application to identify several observations with the same ID. This application uses only 2 parameters, defined in a settings file: an authentication token (from https://www.inaturalist.org/users/api_token ) and a taxon ID. To apply the ID on an observation, I just …

Thanks! Don’t hesitate, if you wish to try it. I could also make this tool use custom shortcuts, for switching from a predefined taxon to another one. This would require also to switch manually from the web brower to the console application, in order to give it the focus, needed for catching the ke…

For faster IDs, I developped a Windows Forms application, as a replacement for the console application mentioned above. The key features are: Load observations and photos in a cache (RAM + HDD), in order not to wait for downloading. Browse observations, with up to 4 medium size pictures displayed…

Question: Is there a way not to be notified (in my home page) of IDs improving my IDs on other people observations? Use case: when I ID hundreds of “Unknown” observations with high rank IDs (Plantae, Fungi, …), I don’t need to know which species they are. Feature request? Be able to choose the ran…

There is no way to do this at the moment. It may or may not be part of the upcoming notifications revamp . Your specific question came up in that thread ( here ) but I don’t know if staff addressed it.

Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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sullivanribbit December 2, 2020, 8:33pm 392

That’s really cool, well done @jeanphilippeb! I hope iNaturalist adds some sort of bulk ID mechanism to the standard UI soon, but if not, I might try something like your tool.

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Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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