Is there a way that I can set my default geoprivacy to “obscured” for all future observations?

Because iNat is fundamentally about sharing information , it’s not possible to set a default geoprivacy to obscured or private. It needs to be done on an observation-by-observation basis, via batch editing on upload in the web uploader, or via batch editing on the Edit Observations screen on the webs…

Trespassing? Can you expand on the particular action?

does the species need its location to be obscured?

It sounds like they don’t want things posted from their land because other people take it as access permission and trespass. I’m sad to hear that is happening. I’ve heard people concerned about it happening but hadn’t heard concrete examples before.

I wish there was a ‘tiny obscuration’. There are a lot of rarer finds I make, and I have to obscure every single thing I found at that locality, which is next to useless for citizen science. If there was a ‘tiny obscuration’, (perhaps within 500m?), then the record would still be good for citizen sc…

Yeah, this is more or less the case. I’ve been working with another individual doing some surveys on private land that has a number of unique plant and animal species. Both we and the property owner want these sightings to be in a database like iNat since in some cases they are county/state records.…

Also read about trespassing issues after lockdown (in Australia?) People who must have that selfie with that view. Landowners were left to deal with garbage, sh*t and broken fences.

I was also looking for a way to change the default geoprivacy setting of “open”, and am disappointed to see that iNat rejected this as somehow going against its mission. To my mind, it is a basic precaution that iNat should encourage rather than discourage. I have enjoyed using iNat for several yea…

If you’re working on a PC and upload photos in batches, it’s easy to “select all” and make them all “obscured.” If you upload them individually from the field, that’s more of a problem, but one option would be to go with the defaults and then use “batch edit” at the end of the day or the next day t…

Of course there’s a big value of having a precise location, as info from iNat is shared with GBIF, as other purposes as finding the specimen again (not by mentioned trespassers, but by professionals). Having place obscured rather then setting a wrong location makes it possible for you to share the a…

I surely appreciate the potential value, which is why I asked about how the location info is used. It’s not clear to me, but perhaps I’m being dense or I missed it in the documentation. If the obscure option renders the location info useless, I second the suggestion for a less obscure obscurity opt…

Changing default geoprivacy

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sanderling23 August 14, 2020, 7:16pm 19

I voted for the related feature request here.

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Changing default geoprivacy

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