I have a project on here ( https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/sleeping-giant-state-park-biodiversity?tab=observations&subtab=map ) and I am running into an issue with auto-population of the collection project from certain users. What I am seeing from searching the forum is that the “uncertainty cir…

Well not sure of I understand what you want to do, but the uncertainty circle is linked to the accuracy as determined by the GPS sensor, which is linked to the number of satellites locked and their position. I believe it is there by design and has to. The only solution I see is that the user overri…

Yes that seems to be the only solution at this point to manually shrink the circle down to be entirely within the project area. I guess the majority of projects don’t have their GPS centroid that close to the edge of their park but it is frustrating when we potentially have a lot of user observatio…

if you have that edited on the desktop version, it’s a bit easier, as you can set up the accuracy manually. Obviously you have to adjust the position too, un case it falls outside the project area and you are sure it fell inside instead. I usually do that “easy” by pinning a location inside my boun…

First, some explanation, since there seems to be some confusion here. Whether or not an observation is “in” a place, e.g. it will turn up in place-based searches or collection projects with place filters, depends on a couple things The coordinates of the observation must lie within the place bound…

@kueda can you confirm that the default lat/lon and accuracy values are coming from Google? Would asking them to change be a possible solution?

I made the boundary place to accomodate that little bit of circle that falls outside the place. Given the State Park abuts a College, it is more likely that the observations are in the park part of the circle and not the lawn on the other side. And if there are a few from the edge of the college c…

I think there might be another level of confusion here, too… [image] rayray: is there a way I can modify the “location” of Sleeping Giant State Park’s default circle and [image] rayray: This default location and circle can be accessed on the upload screen as a type in location and gives…

[image] jwidness: @kueda can you confirm that the default lat/lon and accuracy values are coming from Google? Would asking them to change be a possible solution? I’m not sure what you mean by “default,” but if you’re referring to the accuracy value that gets set when you search for a locatio…

[image] kueda: if you’re referring to the accuracy value that gets set when you search for a location by name Exactly – in the screenshot I posted above from the Android app, you can see the lat/lon and accuracy (41.42/-72.90 and 195) that were returned to me when I manually typed the locatio…

[image] kueda: In the case of https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37288543 , the “Locality Notes” are 200 Mt Carmel Ave, Hamden, CT 06518, USA , which seems like an extremely unlikely piece of text to type by hand. In the Eastwoodhill Arboretum example, I enter “Eastwoodhill Arboretum” an…

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