How do I search through my observations for ones where my ID is not the same as the community ID? Note, this is not just searching for those in status “Needs ID”. I’m looking for those where someone else has contributed a finer or disagreeing ID. I try to always check my notifications when people…

Not sure if this is quite what you’re looking for, but if you go to the Edit Observations page, then click on the Search button, there’s an option for “most disagree”. That seems to work, given my quick experiment with it.

I just tried that idea, and it’s pretty handy! for those that can’t find the old observations page: click on your profile pic at top right: [image] then click on observations: [image] then click Search: [image] tick the “most disagree” box: [image] and hit the Search button at the bottom …

That screen-capture-and-highlight message worked really well for me! Thanks! I’ll have to try this search.

[image] kiwifergus: There is the ability to search for your own maverick IDs, but you have to be considerably off from the CID for that to be relevant: https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=maractwin&category=maverick Thanks for this, I always wondered if there was a way to do …

So that search described above finds some interesting results, but it’s not what I asked for. That shows identifications I’ve made that are off. I was looking for observations I’ve made where the ID is off, and none of those show up in the above search.

https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/identifications?own_observation=true&current_taxon=false&current=true&user_id=maractwin Search for identifications where: user_id=maractwin: the identifier is maractwin own_observation=true: the identifier is also the observer current_taxon=false: the identification…

Thanks, that does yield the info I was looking for. Using the API doesn’t give me much of a U/I, but as a developer, I’m not afraid to read the JSON output. Maybe I’ll write a little front end for this.

you can change the URL to: https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?own_observation=true&current_taxon=false&current=true&user_id=maractwin

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jdmore March 4, 2020, 8:21pm 10

Just for everyone’s information, staff has said that this is deprecated functionality that may be discontinued at any time, and may not currently work as expected.

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