For example, if I am looking at unknowns (or any taxon), it would be handy to be able to filter for observations with:
1 photo attached - I know I won’t have to ask the observer to separate anything, and can just start IDing unknowns
2 or more photos attached - if I already have my “please separate” boilerplate on the clipboard, and can be ready to paste it when it applies
If it’s not on the filter, but can be a added to the URL, that would work too.
It’s currently possible for 0 photos using &photos=false , but it looks like it isn’t a available for 1 vs multiple.
Adding Life Sage, Sex, Dead/Alive can go faster if I can filter to only look at observations with 1 media file (be it photo or audio), and then come back later to look at the ones with multiples.
Hi, unluckily I have no answer to this question, but I would be interested if such search feature were available. Beeing able to filter observations by numbers of photos attached is a rather good indicator for the effort put by the observer to look for details and so, the more photographs there is with an observation, the greater is the possibility to check for diagnostic characters.
So it would be very useful if the &photos= parameter could accept values such as numbers from 0 to 20 (since this is the higher limit on one observation) or having a value such as &photos=multiple (or &photos=>1)
I would also like to see a feature like this as I am often looking for photos of features that usually do not show up in observations with only one photo. Additionally, what would be even more useful is if the search returned a grid of resulting photos from all the observations in the format of the taxon photo browser. This way it would be really easy to browse through the results for images that might be interesting. I can often tell from images of that size whether they are relevant or not, but with the small thumbnails in an observation I often have to look at the large version of every one, which can take a long time to load.
I like the idea of having a search filter for the count of photos in an observation.
I’m currently working on a test dataset of images that contain the same animal for testing pattern recognition software. For that it would be useful to be able filter observations with more than one photo.
For similar reasons to @rymcdaniel I’d really enjoy this feature. I make flora keys and my location restricts my access to herbariums which makes accessing reference material difficult. Instead, I use photos and descriptions I find online which can all too often be contradictory of one another, or simply lack details on features which may be important for a key.
iNaturalist is always a massive hit-or-miss when it comes to finding photos for this purpose. Lots, and I mean LOTS, of observations with <4 photos. Where observations do occur with >= 4 photos, half the time they are very broad photos and are basically duplicates of one another with a slight change to the camera angle. Very occasionally you do stumble across a hidden gem though with lots of high quality, detailed photos which can be very useful. It would be great to have a filter to help with finding these.
If this feature were to be added I’d imagine iNaturalist would be one of the top sites globally for searching and referencing photos like this.
Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: mobile & website
URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: n/a
Description of need:
I’m a mycologist interested primarily in the fungi of the Andes and Amazon regions. If I want to parse through observations meeting those criteria in just one country – say, Ecuador, for example – I’m faced with, at the time of writing, over 69,000 observations. Even after excluding the most common taxa via a URL hack – assuming that the observations going by that name are even accurately identified (they very often are not) – the number cannot be brought down to beneath 45,000. What’s more, once a user has navigated to around the hundredth page of search results, iNat generates an error, stopping the user from progressing any further.
In general, lower quality observations are accompanied by a single photo. More dedicated/experienced observers/collectors will know that multiple images of multiple fruiting bodies in multiple stages of development are necessary in order to form the highest quality observation. It is this kind of observation that I’m trying to filter for, and where I feel my identification energies are best spent.
Feature request details:
The feature requested is the ability to select/filter for observations which contain two or more images. This could take the form of a check box in the filters section [ie: Has Two or More Photos], or a modification to the search URL. The site already recognizes and graphically displays image quantity by placing a numeral at the bottom left of the observation thumbnail in grid view. This tells me that implementing this functionality ought not be so difficult to achieve.