Is there a way to use a location filter to search for observations in a specific geographic feature (either by name or otherwise)? By name, for example, could you search desert observations by filtering all places with “[wildcard] desert” in the name? Or better yet, to exclude the change of includ…

i don’t think there’s an easy way to do what you’re suggesting. if you provide a more specific description / example / case of exactly what you’re trying to do, you might get more helpful responses.

[image] Star3: could you search desert observations by filtering all places with “[wildcard] desert” in the name? Best work-around: by modifying the search URL manually you can do a combined search on a comma-separated list of place IDs. You would just have to look up the IDs of all the dese…

[image] jdmore: Not quite sure what you are describing here. But in general, for a coastline, you would need to create your own place to delimit the area of interest, assuming such a place did not already exist. What I mean is if it were possible to somehow input a geographic featue into iNa…

Yeah, “teaching” iNaturalist where all of the riparian habitats of the world are would be pretty monumental, unless such a data set already exists somewhere, and could somehow be integrated into the iNat infrastructure.

this could probably be done, but it would be very significant effort, which may not be worth the benefit. step 1: creating the right geography. depending on what you’re trying to achieve, data from Marine Regions ( http://www.marineregions.org/downloads.php ), EPA ( https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/le…

Filtering searches by geographic features (mountains, riparian, etc)?

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Filtering searches by geographic features (mountains, riparian, etc)?

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