Are there any guidelines for when it is appropriate / allowed to create places? I would like to subscribe to findings from a few natural areas near me, but as far as I can tell the existing ‘interesting places’ created on the map are mostly larger nature reserves and other official areas. Therefore …

I did already create relatively small places (like small protected sites ex.: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/wengertsbierg ) on iNaturalist. This was not “just” for me but for our small community. So I think it is completely ok if you create such places, if they do not already exist. At least I …

It’s definitely ok to create new Places where they don’t already exist. We had some problems early on with people creating multiple copies of gigantic places (whole continents) and it creates a lot of extra load on the servers. You currently need a minimum number of RG observations but I can’t find …

Found it here: https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/24731-new-requirements-to-sending-messages-making-projects-and-making-places

Thanks. I have already gone ahead and created a few places for small protected sites. No problems so far :smiley:

[image] jdjohnson: It’s definitely ok to create new Places where they don’t already exist. We had some problems early on with people creating multiple copies of gigantic places (whole continents) and it creates a lot of extra load on the servers. You currently need a minimum number of RG observa…

[image] moonlittrails: Are there existing “official” places like towns (i.e. not a user-defined place that doesn’t have an official border) that only staff can/should maintain There are what are called Standard Places, which in general are anything down to level 1 geographies, which means nat…

[image] moonlittrails: There are two towns with the same name in CA, both are in the database as points A long time ago a bunch of place names were imported from Yahoo Maps (I think) as points so those town names are probably artifacts from that. Curators can edit other people’s places and w…

[image] jdjohnson: Curators can edit other people’s places and we can merge two existing places. If you contacted the creator of the existing place that has the incorrect boundaries and they haven’t replied, you can ask a curator to replace the boundary. To be clear, there are plenty of non s…

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Creating places appropriate?

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