There are a number of discussions going on about inappropriate species being suggested by the app and accepted by novice users, particularly outside of data-rich areas such as California. The computer vision suggestions are based on visual similarity, and while several changes have been made to addr…

Hi all - we just released a minor change today on the web to remove non-nearby suggestions from the computer vision suggestions by default. We released something similar on Android a week or two ago and a similar change on iOS is coming soon. We hope will reduce the frequencies of people choosing s…

It’s not too far along, we’d start out with mobile first, most likely. Currently the plan is to have an option to toggle between the two in the app. I imagine that could be made “sticky” so you just have to toggle it once and you’ll then see the standard list by default.

Has anyone suggested the removal of the “Seen Nearby” suggestion for observations that are outside of atlased ranges (when applicable)? Or remove the suggestion altogether if outside the atlased range? “Nearby” is somewhat relative; 100 km is a large distance for many species. This seems particularl…

The biggest issue with that is atlases only work on land since they follow political boundaries, so it is an approach that does not work for two thirds of the Earth’s area (a smaller percent of observations yes, but still a bunch). It is also unclear how much of a server hit having so many atlases …

I like the idea over-all, but it would have to be implemented with extreme care. It should not exclude species based on location, as there is an ever increasing amount of invasive and non-native species spreading all through the world. The ID suggestion should include non-local species, but perhap…

Has anything been done regarding this issue yet? Since the “seen nearby” feature already exists, wouldn’t it be an easy fix to restrict auto-suggestions to these ones only? If the users can tell that it’s something not on the list, they can still search it normally. The problem is that an overwhelmi…

The ‘Seen Nearby’ is also skewed bycultivated plants not being marked as casual. Then a domino effect from that first wrong one …

This suggestion was made 18 months ago but hasn’t been implemented, and is surely one of the biggest weaknesses of the system. While suggestions for some taxonomic groups are good, some are impossible. For example, many, or even most, British Hoverflies (Syrphidae), even with very clear images, get …

I’m going to share my 2 cents here. As far as I see it, the main priority of CV is for helping and providing appropriate identifications. It has a second role of speeding up IDs, as well (often times waiting for CV to load is far quicker than typing a name and selecting it from the list). There ha…

Better use of location in Computer Vision suggestions

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Hi @saucegandhi, welcome to the iNat Forum. The staff recently responded here in this topic with this update - see above:

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Better use of location in Computer Vision suggestions

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