Drawing polygons

General
#1

Hi All,

I’m curious if iNat has a function that allows users to draw polygons on the map and then limit observations to whatever is in that polygon. The reason I am asking is because I want to create a project that focuses on documenting fungi that occur in the same habitats as the Gray Pine (Pinus sabinianaI). The Gray Pine has sort of this horse-shoe-esque distribution pattern in the foothills around the Central Valley in California.

So, does anyone know how to create polygons?

-Chris

#2
  1. create a new place: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/new.
  2. filter your observations by that place.
#3

Or create project for that place, it’s much faster and easier to use if you want to deal with only what’s already observed.

#4

There is a polygon tool on the place creation page that @pisum mentioned earlier.

You can also import a KML polygon that you create on Google Earth. I have done this for complex shapes where I had an image of the shape I wanted. I used that image and overlaid it on Google Earth and then made it transparent to make sure it conformed to the lay of the land. Once I had pinned that into place, the transparency allowed me to trace and exclude a couple of landmarks that I could see on Google Earth and did not want to include. Once I had saved the polygon, I was able to export it for use in the place creation page.