For those of you who use data from iNaturalist, what shortcomings do you find in the current csv (spreadsheet) export functionality and what is it preventing you from doing? Or phrased optimistically, what would you like to be able to do with exports from iNaturalist that you can’t currently? If yo…

It would be awesome to integrate with Daymet or with NLCD to get the land cover of the polygon/place for the observations being downloaded, or the weather occurring on the date of observation

I’ve been thinking on this issue of how to more easily capture usernames of identifiers in a concise and useful way in an export. Currently we have fields for num_identification_agreements and num_identification_disagreements. Without getting too deep in right now, I don’t think this is currently ca…

@carrieseltzer This would definitely be an improvement, as it would allow us the ability to find data that is labeled incorrectly and manually change it, but we still would have to manually change the data by going back and forth from the datasheet to the iNaturalist observation itself. This isn’t …

@carrieseltzer Thanks for getting back to us! I think that this would be useful in some cases, though the potential discrepancy between Community ID and observation taxon worries me. I actually didn’t realize that the ID currently downloaded was the observation taxon and not the community ID (oops!…

[image] cthawley: I actually didn’t realize that the ID currently downloaded was the observation taxon and not the community ID (oops! I need to read more closely) which would be more valuable for some of my work. (Presumably I would get the Community ID if I download from GBIF?) See also thi…

i’ve been experimenting with mapping/GIS stuff a bit ( https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/which-gis-tools-do-you-use-and-why/3519/9 ), and i think i’m learning that if data could be exported to a (Geo?)JSON format, that might actually be nicer than a CSV in many cases. i’m thinking in particular that tha…

It would be great if we could export all the observations in a given area, such as the map search which I screenshotted. This would be super useful for mapping out biodiversity in a given area! [Observation%20search]

This is already possible. In your image above, you just need to click “Redo search in map”, then “Filters”, then “Download”

Hi, I am developing a desktop database system written in Libre Office Basic aiming to distribute it freely among some public schools here in my town. The objective is to attrack kids to science through the use of iNat as a plataform that will hold up their observations within projects wich will be …

I wish that it was possible to export sex data for observations. I am trying to look for potential sex bias in encounters observers have with specific species, but this information is not included in the .csv.

Data users— what are your use cases and requests for exporting data?

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bouteloua June 3, 2019, 11:09pm 36

See also this relevant feature request: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-by-observation-id-or-community-id/3620

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Data users— what are your use cases and requests for exporting data?

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