When I enter an observation from my iphone, the lat-longs of the observation are almost always different from what I actually entered. For example, when I do a new observation and I enter a set of coordinates into the location field, the map takes me to a place near the coordinates I typed in, but a…

Can you post screenshots of your workflow?

OK here it is: the first photo shows the screen when I am trying to enter location data. I select “search” and get the second screen. I then type in the lat-longs as shown and hit “search” and I get as a return the third screen. My only choice at this point is to select the location returned and whe…

Yes that makes sense. I don’t have an iPhone, so I’m not sure what the best solution would be. Can you scroll/zoom to set the location? You can probably pin locations used more than once. And then there’s always using the website, which is much easier, especially in bulk.

On your last screen (“Edit Location”) you should be able to drag the map until the correct location is under the cross-hairs, then click “Save” - on my iPhone this updates to the chosen location. However, I did just notice that the map only displays the latitude of the cross-hairs, not the longitude…

This seems like a really bad bug for the phone app. Is there any way to access your saved locations from the phone app?

So here is my work-around, but it really just makes more work. I enter the observation from my phone with no location, and then I immediately go to the website and type in the coordinates on the edit screen. If I forget, someone usually asks me to add the location, so this is not too bad. I can’t se…

These look like screenshots from the website upload function rather than the iPhone app? Also, there are different ways to upload an obs from the iNat web site app under iOS. In my case, the apps normally pick up the location from the photo’s meta data. Perhaps there is be a setting or permission …

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