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…

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 …

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.

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…

[image] benkendrick: Easy to make dumb mistakes and called a snake a plant every now and again and its good to be ready to be called out on it lol. Just this week I labeled a Canada Goose as a Canada Gooseberry!

Haha I love that! At least that is an easy one to pick up. I’ve been called out on a few and I have no idea why I’ve typed something so obviously incorrect. It’s like my brain was thinking one thing but my fingers were just automatically tapping out something else.

This is amazing - I have no idea on how to even begin doing this, but I have been imagining something like it as I go through the observations slowly. I might have to teach myself :) Do you know of any good tutorials online?

Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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arboretum_amy December 5, 2020, 5:55pm 396

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.

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Amount of "Unknown" records is decreasing

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