Hello So have been using the app and the web interface to explore iNaturalist - both as an educator and as a user. Realised that the “guides” feature is really cool. And created this one on “Butterflies of Uttarakhand” . This came as a result of people asking how to see only butterflies (for examp…

i looked for the Houston Arboretum Reptile and Amphib guide and downloaded that. it was a 6.9MB download for 40 taxa. then i turned off my internet connections to see what i could do with it. first, if i don’t have the guide open before i lose my connection, then i can’t get to the guide at all. so…

Dear @pisum Thank you That is a good over view and unless there are further updates (apparently not) I will just leave it be and circulate the pdf’s and link people to the guide page. One issue i found is that the guides seemed to be organized only by 3 characteristics Guide Order - (I don’tt k…

[image] ram_k: Guide Order - (I don’tt know what it uses - mabe frequency of observation) but this is not according to Taxonomy i believe this is just the order that you add taxa to your guide. i think i remember that back in the day when i created a guide, i could just sort the list of the t…

Thanks @pisum - will note these and follow up For the taxa i just said select all. On the side of the guide page it shows the Butterflies ordered by taxa and how many are there in each as well. Being able to choose pictures from the locality means promoting local observers and encouraging them. T…

#licensing Oooh - so I will need to see that each picture chosen has appropriate licensing - hopefully there will be a “filter” for by license also -

I have a question about using my guides on the app - I download them and they work brilliantly and then the next time I try and open a guide it has vanished , presumably because I clear the cache? Is there any way around that? Thanks Sally

even if you download a guide, you can’t search for the guide while offline. so as far as i can tell, to use the guide in offline mode, you have to open it before you lose your internet connection – at least that’s the way it seems to work in the Android app.

Downloading Guides (offline mobile downloads - represent a considerable burden on our system.) - #9 by system - General

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