How does iNaturalist handle duplicate places? Is there a way to merge places? I noticed that one city, Charlottesville VA , is listed as 3 different places on iNaturalist. They vary in accuracy as far as the name and area. Places Named Charlottesville Charlottesville City: https://www.inatura…

you could merge these, keeping the name and boundaries that are correct. but I would at least check with the projects that use these places before you merge.

That is what I was hoping to do. Unfortunately, I do not own these places. With the exception of Charlottesville City, it does not appear that I can edit the places (even though the curator’s guide states that I should be able to edit them). @bouteloua ?

A question for Placemaster Scott ( @loarie ).

I was able to merge “Charlottesville City” and “Charlottesville County”, but it appears that I cannot edit “Charlottesville County” or “Charlottesville Town”. It looks like other curators are trying to do some editing to Gainesville, FL and are having similar problems ( Editing a place boundary foru…

@mangum will this correct the issue? delete the point place called Charlottesville that is of place type Town rename the place called Charlottesville County to Charlottesville City I think because Charlottesville is a GADM level 2 place, it still makes sense to be of type County even though it’s …

@jwidness I believe merging/deleting Charlottesville Town into Charlottesville County and renaming Charlottesville County to Charlottesville City would fix the problem. It would be great to have some progress on this problem, thank you. Just a note, unfortunately, this is not an uncommon problem. T…

Oh, that’s very interesting. I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that that Virginia has so many county-equivalent cities. But now that it’s clear the problem is bigger than just fixing Charlottesville, I’m not sure the best course of action. I guess maybe we can try to ask @loarie ag…

What would be the correct way to handle these duplicate places? [image] This one has no parent. It looks like a mistake: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/maritimes-provinces-of-canada This one has Canada as its parent, as it ought to, but has an ugly slug, I presume because the other place alr…

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