Here is my situation. For the past two years I have used iNat for student collections in a Field Biology course I teach. It has worked very well, for both me and the students. In the first year complaints from the community regarding multiple observations of the same individual (of a species) in…

There is nothing inherently wrong with having multiple observations of the same organism at the same time. Did complainers give reasons for why they didn’t like it?

The complaint was that it would artificially inflate species abundance in an area…Do you have any information regarding bulk uploading?

Because iNaturalist defines an observation as “An observation records an encounter with an individual organism at a particular time and location.” iNat data isn’t a great indicator of abundance in the first place. iNat data are artificially inflated in many ways, from bioblitzes, and trailheads, and…

HI Tiwane, I do want the pics so, merging sounds like the most helpful avenue of approach…it is only 11 accounts (I have all logins and PWs)…I will pare them down to the keeper observations, then reach out to you when that is done…I did establish an account for the class (into which I was going to …

From my standpoint: I don’t mind a few duplicates but in some cases you will literally see 30 or 40 observations of the same tree, with differing IDs, etc. and in one case I identified it wrong which was my fault but it was a pain to deal with. I think duplication within reason is totally fine but a…

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Bulk upload from downloaded observations

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