sometimes i see interesting place polgons in iNaturalist that i’d like to use and/or modify in a GIS application. it doesn’t look like there’s a way to download a KML or similar file from iNaturalist, but i figured out recently that you can use the iNaturalist API to get the place polygon coordinate…

if you edit the place, underneath the map is an option to download the kml. This might just be for curators. I’m not sure, but if you try editing and can’t find the download kml link, you could ask a curator to download and send it to you.

hmmm… that doesn’t seem to be available for non-curators like me, except in places that i have created myself. it would be nice to be able to download KMLs for any place. but in the meantime, i can still get the place coordinates via the API, which just adds a little bit of extra work.

nice! thanks for tutorializing it. :muscle:

Extracting place polygons from iNaturalist

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jwidness May 31, 2019, 3:50pm 4

now in tutorial format

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Extracting place polygons from iNaturalist

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