Why there are so many duplicates of several places in Colombia, in most of the duplicates what changes is a tilde, it is a problem when I try to add the location to a common name because I don’t know which place is the real one. [2019-10-06%20(2)] [2019-10-06]

Because any user can add a new place. 2 things to look for. If you open each you will see one has a clean url - https://www.inaturalist.org/places/vaupes and the map appears to actually show an actual border. The other has an odd url and the map is just a dot. The first is the ‘official’ one. But this is not guaranteed.

fyi I deleted the one that was just a single GPS point. There is no capacity to flag a place, but if you locate duplicates and can document them, curators can (usually) delete or merge them together.

I’ll take the chance to report here something I noticed a while ago, then. https://www.inaturalist.org/places/trentino-alto-adige--2 (just a point) https://www.inaturalist.org/places/trentino-alto-adige (has the proper boundary)

This one has a project associated with it. The good news is the owner of the project is still active on the site. The bad news is I don’t speak Italian to send them a message asking them to switch over to the proper one. If you happen to, the user name is lella.

I have one to. https://www.inaturalist.org/places/kwazulu-natal https://www.inaturalist.org/places/kwazulu-natal-za The second one appears to be the correct one.

another one: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/northern-cape--2 https://www.inaturalist.org/places/northern-cape

@tiwane - I tried merging these together, but it results in a timeout 504 error for me. This as well as presumably the other need to be done centrally I assume.

I found other cases https://www.inaturalist.org/places/boyaca-co Correct https://www.inaturalist.org/places/boyaca https://www.inaturalist.org/places/caqueta-co Correct https://www.inaturalist.org/places/caqueta https://www.inaturalist.org/places/atlantico https://www.inaturalist.org/places/atlantico-co Correct https://www.inaturalist.org/places/valle-del-cauca--2 https://www.inaturalist.org/places/valle-del-cauca Correct And many others

Looks like it went through, I only see https://www.inaturalist.org/places/kwazulu-natal-za now. [image] nicolasr: I found other cases https://www.inaturalist.org/places/boyaca-co Correct https://www.inaturalist.org/places/boyaca https://www.inaturalist.org/places/caqueta-co Correct https://www.inaturalist.org/places/caqueta https://www.inaturalist.org/places/atlantico https://www.inaturalist.org/places/atlantico-co Correct https://www.inaturalist.org/places/valle-del-cauca--2 https://www.inaturalist.org/places/valle-del-cauca Correct I removed the ones that were single points.

I have sent her a message and she dealt with the problem.

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