Bounding boxes for Western Europe and Eurasia far too large

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): N/A

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=60.91569999813389&nelng=33.91655491965398&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=10.26768193862537&swlng=-109.2967523938585
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=82.16739068759804&nelng=-109.1579130546178&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=-11.10829994452789&swlng=-31.46479992805255&taxon_id=346932

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): Boundaries for locations “Western Europe” and “Eurasia” are completely off. Instead of the expected polygon:
“Western Europe” creates a rectangular box that includes large parts of northern Africa as well as North and Central America, but excludes most of Scandinavia.
“Eurasia” includes most of Africa, a slice of Greenland and about a third of the western part of North America.

Step 1: Go to Explore

Step 2: Start typing “Western Europe” or “Eurasia” into the location field and select whichever you’ve chosen it appears

Step 3: Observe bounding box.

No problem here: Western Europe includes oversea territories (including Clipperton Island) and not Northern Europe.
Same for Eurasia : includes Azores (west) and Indonesia (south), etc.

If you want more acurate boundaries, click on the « Places of interest » menu at the top of the map, and select whatever is relevant for you, e.g. Europe or Asia.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=97391&subview=map
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=97395&subview=map

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These are indeed the bounds given by Google, you can try it out directly with their geocoding service.

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you can filter for multiple places at once:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=97395,97391

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7008,6753,7207,8147,7236,8057,8263

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