Countries become rectangular when using the Location bar in Explore

I suspect the problem is the same as the one here. In short, something is telling the Google Maps API to return the results in Dutch. I know the OS can do this, as can the browser. In this case, I’m not sure where the message is coming from, but you can verify whether that’s the problem using Chrome’s Developer Tools.

Once you select Netherlands in the Location drop-down, there will be a call to the Google API. If it’s being told to return a result in Dutch, there will be “nl” in the call. Here’s mine when I set the browser to Dutch:

Then, the result comes back with “Nederland” instead of “Netherlands”:

iNat then tries to find a place called “Nederland” and fails (because the iNat place is called “Netherlands”), so it uses the bounding box coordinates instead.

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