I’ve been appalled lately that the iNat CV is now offering completely-out-to-lunch suggestions for some observations at San Jacinto Mountain, with the true identification not one of the suggestions. I mainly use that iNat CV to save typing, but lately it hasn’t been doing that. This example is TYP…

@dianastuder please see my post here . We just released an update to the model and we’ve gone back to using the grid approach. The maps are looking overall better to me, eg for Hibbertia dentata this the new map, which covers the coast: [image] In the previous model this coastal observation was n…

same here Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry) on July 8, 2021 at 01:17 PM by Robert Levy · iNaturalist . it’s a common species but only shows up under “Visually Similar”. Sometimes you need to remove the “Expected Nearby” label and look at the Visually Similar only. P. jeffreyi is the first…

[image] jbecky: [image] Here are the suggestions for that photo/location after the latest computer vision update: [image] And here are the updated geomodels for species now excluded from the suggestions for the observation: Pinus brutia: https://www.inaturalist.org/geo_model/135778/expl…

I’ve noticed some weird extrapolation of vagrants. For instance, the model expects Eurasian Eagle-Owls around Great Salt Lake . As far as I know there has never been one anywhere near there and there certainly aren’t any obs there on iNaturalist (the closest are in New York City). I imagine this is n…

[image] keirmorse: Likewise, maybe exclude all those that are some predetermined distance from observations as well. 100%. I don’t know if there is a feature request for this, but it would definitely help reduce the issues of species being shown as “expected nearby” when they don’t even occur…

as a similar, frustrating example to the Bossiaea stephensonii one I raised above, here is the current expected nearby map for Hibbertia dentata: [image] there are hundreds of RG observations from all of those coastal cells that are currently being excluded, many of them that have been in iNat fo…

Who has inherited this? Since Alex is no longer iNat staff.

Yes - thank you - have been waiting for that CV update.

[image] tiwane: …and an unlucky placement of grid cells in the area. We currently live in a hexagonal world…with all its joys and warts.

Yeah we are living in a hexagonal world… [Copilot_20250925_211537]

My Cape Peninsula has regained the Hout Bay hexagon, which is mostly South Atlantic Ocean. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

CV suggestions have gotten much, much worse at San Jacinto Mountain

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CV suggestions have gotten much, much worse at San Jacinto Mountain

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