# Colors coding on maps

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/colors-coding-on-maps/13795>\
**Category:** General\
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**Created:** [June 27, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/colors-coding-on-maps/13795 "2020-06-27T01:54:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/colors-coding-on-maps/13795/4 "2020-06-27T16:00:24Z")

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To recap:  
orange = on the checklist, but with no RG observations  
green = on the checklist, but with RG observations

They shouldn’t take two months to percolate through the system, I’m guessing they got stuck for the same reason that life lists get stuck, i.e. lists are a little buggy.

To fix it, you can go to the [checklist entry](https://www.inaturalist.org/listed_taxa/64050791) and click refresh:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/0/0a39a16c16d701d7ade0333af2b435eda8f1f289.jpeg)

I already did this for the Alabama checklist and you can see it turned from orange to green:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/a/a28d852772748cac31f6b46f5a3b76c8499094ef.jpeg)

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