Do we have an approach for creating iNaturalist place id from geoJson Wikidata Property P7471 iNaturalist place ID We have in Sweden now all nature reserve in Wikidata and have the geojson from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency “Naturvårdsverket” e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2…

creating new Places is very taxing on the iNaturalist servers, so it’s best not to create a Place that won’t be used. And ideally the user who created them should remain active on the site, because only the creator of a Place, and Curators, can edit or delete that Place.

[image] salgo60: what do you mean by manage them? i mean that it’s helpful to have someone actually keeping tabs on places that they create. each place created has an impact – large or small – on the overall performance of the entire system. so the worst thing is to create a place that is nev…

Hi, a noob here myself, with a request. If you do have the means, would you please consider adding the nature reserves Garnudden (Salem), Vinterskogen (Botkyrka) and Rågsved (Stockholm)? I often frequent them, and it would be neat to keep tabs of what is seen there, but I don’t know how to create pl…

Yes, or if/when the boundaries change.

[image] jensu: If you do have the means, would you please consider adding the nature reserves Garnudden (Salem), Vinterskogen (Botkyrka) and Rågsved (Stockholm)? i won’t add them, but i will provide some general instruction on how to add them, with these caveats: [image] pisum: a couple …

Thanks for the feedback… and I agree maintaining the data is the big challenge therefore I think we should try to do this in a structured way and I think if iNaturalist connects to more communities like Wikidata errors will be found faster I found today potential duplicates in iNaturalist 122711 …

i don’t disagree with your idea – in a world with unlimited resources. but i just don’t see a situation where there’s going to be a single de facto / preferred repository for GIS data any time soon, and in the absence of that, i’m guessing the cost / benefit balance for developing and supporting an …

[image] pisum: single de facto / preferred repository for GIS data That would be magic and I feel Wikidata has always had this problem that we cant trust the data providers that they have skills/tools/change process/ a prioritize backlog so we easier can plan… As you said Open Data needs ski…

[image] jensu: nature reserves Garnudden (Salem), Vinterskogen (Botkyrka) and Rågsved (Stockholm) @jensu you can always get observations using a bounding box see this bounding box e.g. Uttran bbox 59.172944 17.687027 59.200731 17.810623 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=59.200…

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jensu May 12, 2020, 1:21pm 13

Thank you, I ended up creating those three reserves using the excellent guide by @pisum, AND took care to add their ID to WD

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