Some of us are starting to identify in a region that had fewer active identifiers and I’m running into a lot of observations that have no community ID.
Is there a way to pull up observations that no one besides the observer ID’d?
As far as I understand, anything that is verifiable but doesn’t have a community ID shows up under the “needs ID” filter. So that part should be easy. I’m not sure how to cut this down to observations with just one ID or even just those where this one ID comes from the observer. For plants, I usually try limiting to higher taxa (e.g. phylum, class etc) using the “low” filter and work my way down the list to genus. I also like to check all those that have an ID at species level (using the “high” filter).
One thing to note: This does not include anything marked “casual” by whatever means (e.g. missing date, captive/cultivated, marked for other DQA items that render it casual). There are a lot of casual observations without community ID and no way to search/filter for them, so finding them is more tedious and involves going through everything and manually marking those with community ID as “reviewed” unless they need correcting. For plants, I like to at least check all the casuals that are NOT captive/cultivated (adding “&captive=false” to the search URL for casuals) to leave comments on stuff that could be an RG observation but is missing some info only the observer could provide, e.g. missing date.
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Yeah, I usually run through Casuals separately after getting the main observations in order.
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This might be possible if this feature request was implemented:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-by-observation-taxon-or-community-taxon/3620
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You can also search for observations with no identifications using the “Unknown” Category filter. This will also turn up some observation where the identifications disagree at the kingdom level and some of the basal kingdoms like bacteria.
I like to browse through unknowns in my state to help boost unidentified observations to a place where someone will see them.
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In this case, I’m trying to find the ones that were ID’d by the observer, but then had no later input. Regrettably I’m seeing a lot of that for some western areas and Bombus.
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