So I know this question has been posted various times to this forum, but either I don’t understand the answers or the question is slightly different to mine.
I have a traditional project for my garden and want to unify all observations to have the same location. I started the project with just placing observations randomly in the surrounding area instead of obscuring them. So now I want to clean up those randomly placed observations and place them all directly where my garden is (obscured of course). I don’t understand how I can do this though.
I’ve tried looking through the various options in the batch edit observations page, I’ve tried add the project with its numerical ID to the batch edit URL and I’ve tried finding any options on the project page itself. But to no avail. Is there any simple option to do this?
It isn’t even possible for me to select the respective observations based on location because of the randomization. If I do this, there are many observations among the selected that are not in my garden but somewhere in the neighborhood.
I’d be open to work with the API etc, but I’m not really familiar with this kind of programming (I know data transformation and plotting in R, but no database/API stuff).
it doesn’t look like there’s a normal user interface in the batch edit screen to get observations by project. however, you can filter this way by editing the URL.
so then to filter for your observations in that project in the batch edit screen, you would use: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/letiziaw?project=206389. (note that the parameter is project rather than project_id because the page is very old and uses naming conventions that are no longer used in pages using a more recent design.)
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alternatively, you can filter for any set of observations using the methods described in:
that all said, you should realize that iNaturalist’s obscuration feature does not completely protect the underlying coordinates recorded in any observation. so even if you use the obscure feature, if it is super important that randos are not able to locate your garden, then i would place the center of your observation at some public place a comfortable distance away but preferrably in your same county / district (such as the intersection of two major roads), and then set the accuracy value to something large enough that encompasses that public place your private place, plus some padding.
Wow, thanks! That worked :) I was apparently trying to add “?project=206389” to the wrong URL (namely the one the batch edit gives you after the first search) and it just ignored it. Works like a charm!
Thanks for the heads-up, too, I recently moved to another house so I don’t really worry about anyone knowing my previous address too much :)