I’m trying to understand the behaviour of Place search on iNat: if I search for “Yellowstone National Park” on the Explore page, I’m shown a map area defined by a square, which I assume contains the actual area of the national park, but surely doesn’t track the boundaries of it. See: https://www.in…

[image] stekkelpak: I’m trying to understand the behaviour of Place search on iNat: if I search for “Yellowstone National Park” on the Explore page, I’m shown a map area defined by a square, which I assume contains the actual area of the national park, but surely doesn’t track the boundaries of …

Someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is that iNaturalist “Places,” which are defined by users, are used only by the “place” filter (and any projects with a named “place”). This is completely separate from the “location” box on the primary Explore page, which uses only location…

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Good to know, @cthawley , thanks!

What’s interesting is that Yellowstone NP is a Place on iNaturalist (actually a standard place ). Unfortunately the matching there isn’t great. Personally I use the header search if I want to search for observations in a Place.

Clarity on Place search behavior

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Clarity on Place search behavior

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