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…

By “I did not create the project boundaries”, do you literally mean project boundaries, or the boundary as defined within the place? If you created the project, and set one of the rules as “must belong in = This Place”, and that place was created by somebody else, then you are right, you can’t edit …

[image] rayray: I see the red circle is quite large and extends >195 meters around the observation. This default location and circle can be accessed on the upload screen as a type in location and gives the same results every time so every observation using the “Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden,…

It’s true there are workarounds, but I’m also curious about a solution to the root cause. Searching for “Sleeping Giant State Park” by default gives you the lat/long 41.42/-72.90 and an accuracy of 195. Where is the original source for those values? And can they be changed? [Screenshot_20200112…

That’s on the app? I’m guessing the lat/lon and accuracy values have more decimal places, and that they are rounded for display in the app. Probably are rounded for display in the browser as well! I see them at about 6dp (8 or 9 sig.fig.?)

Yes, jwidness, thanks for the image. It illustrates the project boundary issue well

Do you know how I could make a new point location? If I did make one the old one would still be there so in an ideal world I could just replace the old one instead of having two of them with the same label. Even if they have the same centroid, the large radius of uncertainty is the issue. Of cour…

I thought we could create point places, but my experiments reveal that it looks like we can only create bounded places. Perhaps create a new bounded place that encompasses the portion of that accuracy circle that is outside the boundary, and then include that extra place in the criteria for the proj…

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…

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pisum January 13, 2020, 2:50am 6

i suspect these come from Google, and you’d have to ask Google to change it. see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/butte-county-bounding-box-incorrect/8034 for something similar.

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