I am trying to import a shapefile (kml) that contains our university’s three campuses for a bioblitz that will take place this September (Universite de Moncton). However, I am running into issues. I managed to create the shapefile in QGIS and the polygons look fine both in QGIS and Google Earth. How…

[image] hsplendens: They have been simplified iNat does intentionally simplify shapes. Can you post screenshots of what yours look like?

[Picture1] Here’s a picture showing the 3 campus (on the left what I see in QGIS and google, on the right what I see in iNat)

btw thanks for a really fast reply @jwidness !

the boundaries you loaded are fine. the simplification only occurs when iNat delivers your place boundaries as vectors. probably you see the extreme simplification here because you’ve created a single place that contains 3 distant locations. (personally, i would have created each of the campuses as …

I see. So it’s just a visualisation issue, the underlying fil is correct if I understand correctly? I’ll try to upload the campuses separately - I think you are right that it would make more sense. Thanks a lot for the really fast help!!! Very appreciated!

I haven’t seen a problem with iNat removing points as I see in your example. That’s not right! I agree with the recommendation to break them out into separate places. You can then create a Project to aggregate all of them. Example: The most complex “Place” I’ve created was a missing US EcoRegion: …

[image] xris: I haven’t seen a problem with iNat removing points as I see in your example. it’s not removing points from the actual stored place. it’s just delivering a simplified version of the polygon vector that only affects the display of the place in this particular case. [image] xri…

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