For plants: If the accuracy is > 500 meters, even better >100 meters remove Research Grade. In other words if the plants is impossible to check in the field it should not get a Research Grade. We often follow up plants to be sure of the ID and > 100 is almost impossible for a tiny plant. Now I ha…

One problem I have with a criteria like this is that it leads to am almost requirement to do multiple or duplicate entries. For example,one of the parks I visit most often is about 400 meters long. When I visit, I typically put a circle encompassing the park. Then for example if I see 6 Black-cappe…

[image] jdmore: Interesting. I don’t seem to have any problem documenting rare species in remote areas within 5-10 meters accuracy. I use a DSLR camera without GPS, with time synched to a separate GPS unit, and later geotag the images from the GPS data. A little more work back in the office, gra…

Dang, I removed the accuracy circle from a lot of my recent observations because I was able to pinpoint their precise locations on the satellite map. Guess I’ll be going back over them and adding accuracy data tonight :grinning:

I don’t see iNat supporting different location accuracy thresholds for different taxa, and it’s unlikely we’ll support a location accuracy threshold for Research Grade status in general, but I can certainly bring it up with the team. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-filter-by-location-accurac…

That’s the method I most commonly use of photographing the phone’s GPS coordinates which requires taking the phone out of my rucksack (between 20 seconds to 1 minute time consumed), another method mentioned is synchronise your camera time with your phone, record the entire trip so with a constantly …

If the cost to you is in time, then make half the number of observations? Alternatively, take 2 photos… one with your “good” camera and one with your phone. Upload all, merge each pair such that the phone photo provides the location data, and then afterward delete that photo Or… work with the 200m…

[image] tiwane: I don’t see iNat supporting different location accuracy thresholds for different taxa Do you know why this is? It seemed like a good solution to the problem, rather than allowing super coarse plant observations to be RG because it is valuable for certain wide ranging animals? …

[image] charlie: if you aren’t willing to do something well, ALL of the hour (instead of hour and 40 minutes) is wasted time! Funny that, I have the same opinion for people whom don’t add supporting photos to plants such as fruit, form, leaves etc… What the point. So much lost data, so many m…

[image] w_martin: whereas my primary concern is of correct ID, yours may be the accuracy of location. Let’s not rove into wild speculation about other people’s priorities. That isn’t correct anyway.

Don't let an observation attain Research Grade if its location is very imprecise

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bouteloua April 21, 2019, 11:39am 39

I sync my GPS and camera to the second, not just to the minute.

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Don't let an observation attain Research Grade if its location is very imprecise

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