Hi! Lately, I have been curating quite a lot of observations that had an obviously wrong location, such as plants or insects in the middle of the ocean. For example, observations supposed to be in Central America end up in the Indian Ocean, some in South Africa are off the coast of Lybia, some from…

That is indeed strange. I’ve had some observations land in the bay because I obscured the location (they were on somebody’s private property), but always reasonably close to land. These observations don’t seem to use obscured locations.

The 0,0 ones are a result of a design issue on the Android mobile app where it is too easy to activate the manual adjustment of the pin without realizing it and it starts off at 0,0.

I’m assuming there are “-” lacking in the coordinates, which is why the observations land so far from the intended locality.

I’m finding a related inaccuracy in which the observation point has a very large circle (10s or 100s of kms) and the point is not where the observation was although it may be somewhere within the circle. These are not obscured locations but open ones. Interpreting the point as being where the observ…

I agree, a lot of the observations I came across were Research Grade and so linked to a scientific database like GBIF, but with a completely wrong locality.

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Finding inaccurate coordinates

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