Hello, I have recently visited the Fernando do Noronha Archipeligo in the South Atlantic. The islands are offshore from Brazil and are part of the state of Pernambuco. I submitted some observations, however they did not register for Pernambuco- but rather only under Fernando do Noronha. Does anyone know why this is? Is there a special category for offshore islands? Thank you in advance for any thoughts.
The data iNat uses for the map locations in Brazil (towns, states, etc and maybe for some other countries too) is wrong. This is a very old issue. GADM https://gadm.org/ is the platform used for this and despite us brazilians messaging them to fix their wrong locations they haven’t changed anything.
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The issue with GADM is known and likely the root of the problem here. Staff are definitely aware of it, but, outside of a large scale location update to standard places (which would likely require iNat downtime).
iNat downtime happens periodically anyway. Could problems like this be addressed at one of those times?
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