I’ve been thinking about the same thing. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-there-a-recommended-way-to-backup-all-my-inat-data/35015
So simply put, if we could have a method to re-download all of our images from our iNat accounts with the needed information somehow linked to the image, it will act as a iNat backup and solve our concerns.
(iNat often detects scientific names in names of an image and adds it as the ID automatically, same with dates and GPS data- so just like that)
I’d say the needed information would be like:
・date
・location and location description
・observation description
・ID (preferably with some higher taxonomic names)
・preferably something that indicates that a series of photos are from one observation- e.g. 100a jpg, 100b jpg),
Furthermore, if this became possible, iNat users can access to their observations OFFLINE! It would be extremely useful.