Can't bring up most continents

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The only two continents I can bring up in the explore page are South America and Oceania. None of the others come up.

Does anyone know the place number for North America?

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North America : place_id=97394

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Thanks

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This is definitely a bug - or at least a loss of functionality. It seems the google-powered search isn’t a good fit for iNaturalist - perhaps because it’s more oriented towards business than science. Ironically, the place field in the filter dialog of the explore page finds all the continents/regions without any problems. (The main iNat search bar also works well for this).

I really hope there’s no plans to replace all the iNat-powered location search fields with the google one.

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You are welcome !

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Closing this because there’s an existing bug report for it.