I’ve been trimming the code for the iNat ID Search ( e.g.,
https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications?taxon_id=12942) to eliminate the fields in the display that are not of immediate interest and I’d like to add at least one field, showing the county name, to the few that are remaining in the display. Eliminating fields was straightforward. But the seemingly obvious way to add a county name field – {innerText:rec.observation.place_county_name} – returns undefined. I’ve tried a couple variants based on the other fields, to no avail. What am I missing? Thanks!
the observation object for each identification record returned by /v1/identifications includes an array of place_ids. to get the names of each of the places, you’d have to make one or more additional requests to /v1/places to get the details of those places.
there’s an example of how that can be done in https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_print_friendly_obs. if i remember correctly, it writes out a set of observation records with placeholders for state, county, etc., then gets a unique set of places that are associated with that set of observations, then gets details for those places, and then finally goes back and updates those place placeholders with the appropriate information… or something like that.
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