I have just tried to set up a list on iNaturalist, of all of the species listed in a guide that I have - Which Native Tree by Andrew Crowe, for NZ trees. Creating this list of all of the species was relatively straightforward. I cannot figure out how to see what species I have not seen from my own …

[image] richardlitt: make it so that your life list is dynamic you do have a dynamic life list now, but it’s incompatible with the static lists. your currently static life list used to be updated dynamically, but the way that updating worked doesn’t scale well, which is why those old life lis…

you can compare any list in the system with any of your own lists, using the compare function at the top of the list page [image] however, since the introduction of dynamic life lists, the non-dynamic list does not authomatically update with taxa that you have observed. so if you want to compare …

The compare function did not work the way I expected, at all - it only used a very old static life list (which I can’t remember making), and it wasn’t clear how to just check it against my current life list. I think the left list could be either list - it has “show only this list” or “Show only the…

[image] richardlitt: it only used a very old static life list (which I can’t remember making), and it wasn’t clear how to just check it against my current life list. as noted above: [image] pisum: if you want to compare your list with your non-dynamic life list, you need to copy the taxa…

You can make such comparison using experimental observations compare tool https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/compare . The first query must be specified as list_id=4494359, e.g all observations for taxons in list The second query is user_id=richardlitt&list_id=4494359, e.g. your observations …

this might work in this particular case, but just keep in mind that that comparison tool would work only in cases where the taxa in each set have observations in the system and are represented as “leaf taxa” in the top species results. also, the tool might not work well if you have more than 500 tax…

I think the limiting taxa is an issue - I have too many observations. The last link that you present, @pisum , almost works - but I’m looking for Research Grade observations, not just any observation. I think this would be really useful if it could be a feature of iNat, because it would allow people…

[image] richardlitt: I’m looking for Research Grade observations, not just any observation then you have to use either the method i described initially, or you could also use asdan’s method, in each case just setting your life list set based on research grade observations only. if you use my…

Ok! So, it is possible. One thing that strikes me is that none of these solutions is really easy. I think it would be excellent if other people could share lists from guides, or from other locations (thinking especially of nature centers working with kids), and then providing an easy way for users …

[image] richardlitt: without doing any extra work well, someone has to do some work. so i guess it’s a question of who should do that work. from my outsider perspective, there are some fundamental issues with the way taxon lists are / can be defined in the system, but changng that could be a…

There’s another possibility besides changing the heavy lifting of changing all of the kinds of lists – make it so that your life list is dynamic, and that you can show this sort of comparison with simpler UX in the UI. I still think it would be great if Nature Centers could share a list of species,…

Compare lists to see what I should look for

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Compare lists to see what I should look for

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