There’s a lot of observations that have pics of ten different unrelated species in one obsv. It’d be nice to have a quick way to move these to ‘casual’ status, while also notifying the poster of the issue (and maybe even automatically show them to a detailed description of how to remove the excess p…

I know many people in this thread will be happy to see that there’s (finally!) a new Data Quality Assessment for marking multi-species observations. I’ve copied the relevant part of this blog post below: New Data Quality Assessment condition for photos unrelated to a single subject We also made on…

[image] GeolTel: Using hypertext links within each obs makes life easy for identifiers, to browse all the daily pics for an individual spread over several obs. Well yes, of course, but that would be SO labour-intensive, that I just can’t see it being done, not by an observer and even more so…

Splitting plant obs across flower fruit not doing either Is equivalent to asking bug guys to ID a beetle partial view of head, look at those eyes! bit of wing diagnostic field mark, brizzles on the squit bounce from obs to obs and decide if head, wing and field mark are actually ONE beetle? …

Bugs don’t have a ‘body part’ annotation field (afaik), that’s the difference. However, assuming an annotation- and photo-centric concept of iNat (which some tend to favor, it seems), this whole process of body-part-as-separate-obs could start making sense. On the other hand, bugs already have a ‘l…

I think some of the recent discussion stems from the fact that phenology annotations in plants can be used in several ways. It can be used e.g. as a tool by identifiers filtering for plants in bloom because most field guides and keys require flower characteristics to identify to species. They can al…

[image] GeolTel: there is currently nothing wrong with posting 10 photos of the same fox visiting the same garden, if 10 days in a row: it is simply 10 “engaging with nature” events - a stated goal of iNat. I see that, but this is a rather different situation. In the case I described above, i…

Not allowed by iNat rules, anyway! What is feasible (= physically doable + allowed by iNat ‘rules’) and useful (to gain correct photo annotations and phenology data) is to perform these 5 observations over 5 days. ‘Feasible’ because that’s 5 encounters with the same individual (OK), creating 5 obs…

[image] GeolTel: What is feasible (= physically doable + allowed by iNat ‘rules’) and useful (to gain correct photo annotations and phenology data) is to perform these 5 observations over 5 days. Just no, this is not a feasible solution. It makes no sense from a phenology perspective either. …

[image] GeolTel: What is feasible […] is to perform these 5 observations over 5 days. But there are many situations where this is not feasible. [image] GeolTel: Well, multi-day hikes are a thing :) Sure they are thing, but it’s ridiculous to propose they be required in order to add mu…

Those are great suggestions but they probably should go into a thread dedicated to discussing and suggesting improvements for annotations, e.g. Let’s Talk Annotations where they will get the on-topic attention they deserve.

When will this field be available for view and use in the Android app? Thanks

Easy way to mark multiple-species observations

Feature Requests

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Identifiers as Volunteer Curators, and Obs with Probs General	102	4993	September 25, 2023
New DQA: Does "Evidence related to a single subject" mean the same individual is in all photos? General	99	3445	March 27, 2024
How can you treat multiple observations that depict the same individual? General	30	1362	July 30, 2024
Observing populations, not just individuals General	17	2493	September 11, 2019
What's your opinion on groups uploading multiple observations of the same individual? General question	44	1196	February 1, 2026

Easy way to mark multiple-species observations

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