I noticed that after posting an observation my written location under the map is not matching the setting on the map: eg the writing says “Bracebridge, ON, Canada” but the map shows a location in Russia! Is this a bug or did I do something wrong? Your help is really appreciated

You’ve likely accidentally clicked on the map and selected the location, given that your photo does not appear to have embedded gps in it. There is no relationship between the text and the entered coordinates, the text is a free text entry box that users can enter any data in they want.

Can you provide the URL to the observation?

The place edit field acts as both an entry and a search. If you put in a name of a place, and press enter, it will try and find the nearest matching place and put the pin location there. If you don’t press enter after changing that field and then save the observation, it records the place name WITHO…

I’d assert this becomes really confusing if, for example you’re bulk editing and forget to press enter a few times; the result is an observation list that shows valid, correct placenames, but when clicked on they do not lead to that placename on the map. Ex.: https://www.inaturalist.org/observation…

Difference between map and written location

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echocreek August 11, 2019, 8:15pm 4

I deleted the pinned location, pinned the location again and changed the 4 problematic observations. Right now I tested the pinned location with a different observation and it worked. I think it was probably my mistake somewhere along the line.

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