I’m using iNaturalist and it’s very frustrating for them that a lot of the names, are in English, not Dutch. Local names for a very large number of species in Dutch are available in The Encyclopedia of Life and many other sources, e.g. textfiles. Shouldn’t it be fairly easy to import Dutch names i…

same issue is being discussed here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/local-names-import-norwegian/3446

@optilete adding a file of common names isn’t really a feature or new functionality, so as it is this isn’t a great fit for Feature Requests. However, if you broaden the scope of this to something like “Create a system for importing common names” so that iNat can receive and ingest files of common n…

If the scope is bigger the change that it will be realised will be smaller. But I agree more languages in Europe have the same problem: the lack of common names makes iNaturalist less usefull and a general solution would be better.

[image] tiwane: “Create a system for importing common names” so that iNat can receive and ingest files of common names @optilete Tony is suggesting you change the title of this feature request! If you agree of course…

I suspect that this is what has been limiting iNaturalist’s potential in other countries. As a curator, I have been trying to implement common names for other languages we support. For example, nearly all Japanese mammals now how their Japanese name on the site. However, from the curator side of t…

I would suggest that, instead of creating a system for importing files from diverse sources, Inat staff should create a single script to import common names in all languages via the EOL api. If we find mistakes, we could correct them either “upstream” or in Inat. Cheers, Lars

I think you need to retain both. As an example, I randomly chose 10 species that I did not recognize the latin for from the list of Norwegian names I prepared. Of those 10, 8 had no name at EoL in Norwegian, so would not get translated if only some standard lookup were implemted. If you are going t…

Ok that seems very reasonable. Thanks a lot for preparing the file for Norwegian!

Another option for source of common names are checklists: https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/1581737-Naamlijst-van-Nederlandse-Kranswieren---Charofytes-# https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/1581771-Naamlijst-van-de-Nederlandse-Korstmossen--Lichens-?page=15 https://www.inaturalist.org/chec…

Create a system for importing common names

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cmcheatle May 23, 2019, 12:38pm 7

I assume you mean xml, not kml.

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