Display what percent observations a species has out of total observations in the area

Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other:

Description of need:
iNaturalist can be used as a good tool to identify where specific animals or species may be found in a larger ecosystem, for example, jellyfish population in an inlet, or for tracking movement of a jellyfish bloom. However, just because there is a large number of observations of a specific species doesn’t necessarily mean they are more common there than in another location, it just could be that more people frequent that area, ergo, there are more observations.

Feature request details:
Similar to the Seek range map, have a heatmap that displays what percent of observations in a given area belong to that species. You can even assign a “common-ness” score, if you don’t want to deal with tiny fractions of percentages. I’d reckon it could look like the Seek range map- as you need to divide the area into small squares in order to count observations within anyways. (Note that the Seek heatmap also simply displays the total number of observations, not percentages- I’m just using it to show the format of what a map might look like)

this probably needs to be a custom visualization that you create yourself. there’s unlikely to be a single configuration that produces a good visualization across all taxa because some taxa are much more common than other taxa, etc.

here’s some discussion of some configuration in my own mapping tool that will allow you to create visualizations similar to what i think you’re describing here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identifriday-is-the-happiest-day-of-the-week/26908/1353. if you run it for various taxa of interest, you’ll see what i’m talking about in my first paragraph above.

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