Hi! I am a iNat user, but a rookie project manager :) I work for a large city and we wish to create a projet including about 65 of our biggest parks (we have around 500 parks!). From what I have seen, those parks do not exist as Places on iNat (I’ve only checked for a few famous ones actually, to be…

Yes it is possible to add non-continuous polygons. Depending on you familarity with GIS tools it can be fairly easy. If you are e.g. using QGIS then dissolve (multiple features) or merge (multiple files) will work to create a layer with a single feature. This can then be exported as a kml and upload…

If you are mapping the parks in Desktop Google Earth, you can select all of the polygons, right-click on one, and select “Combine into Multi Geometry.'”

This sounds like a worthwhile activity. Your approach will depend on what you want to get out of the project and whether that requires that you can distinguish observations in specific parks on iNat (you could always figure out which specific parks observations are in with post-processing). If ther…

I have created a similar project for the parks in my city: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/parks-and-gardens-of-brussels My choice was to group 2-3 parks which are close to each other under the same place, in order to limit the number of new places created on the site, but at the same time ke…

Some government agencies have open GIS data. I got the boundaries for all city, county, state, and national parks in my city using open GIS data from city, county, state, and federal agencies.

Thanks to everyone, what a supportive community! I will definitely add all parks as places including a buffer zone to make sure observations on the edges of the parks are included. Three places a day is not so bad, I am patient.

Creating a project for the parks of a city

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cwbarrows May 11, 2026, 7:55pm 3

Some discussion on best practices for these kind of projects here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/public-parks-and-gardens-survey-project-best-practice-on-set-up/

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Creating a project for the parks of a city

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