URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
Places · iNaturalist
Description of problem:
I would like to create a ‘project’ so that pupils at my school can record wildlife spotted on site. My school (Nailsea School in North Somerset, UK) is not already recognised as a ‘place’, so I have tried to add one. I know that I need to have at least 50 observations so did that last week. However, when I try to add a place the button that I am supposed to see at the bottom of the map is not there. I have tried repeatedly over the past few days. Can anyone help?
welcome to the forum
you need 50 verifiable observations, ie observations that are not casual. You currently have 52 total observations, but only 44 of them are verifiable. The other 8 are cultivated garden plants and are casual grade. So you need 6 more to be able to create your place (assuming some of those 44 don’t also get marked as casual; it looks like a number of your observations are of cultivated garden plants; heads up these should be marked as not wild, which would then make them not verifiable per iNat criteria)
Hi beachcomber,
This is really helpful information, thank you. I will aim to go on a woodland walk this evening to get a 50 verifiable observations. I will look into marking the ones from my garden as ‘not wild’ too.
I often create my own places in iNaturalist. I don’t know if they are places that other users will see, but they appear in my “pinned places” list that I can use when posting more observations. I just type my own verbiage into the location text bar, and move/increase/decrease the red circle to encompass the correct amount of acreage. It’s easy! In fact, the vast majority of my observations are done with this “custom placemaking”, because the provided default circle is never in exactly the right place, or never quite big enough, to cover the precise spot where the observation occurred.
When you go on your walk this evening, it might be helpful to make at least one insect observation where the insect is observed visiting a plant. It’s possible to record the plant species as an observation field on the insect observation. This same approach might help the pupils quantify the wildlife value of cultivated plants at the school (by recording the wild visitors to cultivated plants using signage in the cultivated beds that identifies the plant species).
