I have just created a new place for the Bann Estuary Special Area of Conservation in Northern Ireland. https://inaturalist.ca/places/bann-estuary-special-area-of-conservation . (I know we are supposed to be restrained in creating new places but this is my first ever so I think I am within the guideli…

You need to type in the name of parent place you wish to use, you can search for it in existing places.

Looks like we do restrict parent places on our network sites (eg iNatCA). I’m not sure we should. Anyway, if you log in to inaturalist.org and go to your place ( https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bann-estuary-special-area-of-conservation ) you should be able to add any place from around the world as…

Thank you @tiwane . I was able to add Northern Ireland as the parent place in that way. The site is in the district of Causeway Coast and Glens, which does not seem to be an offficial place on iNat (although I do see it suggested sometimes as a location when I’m entering an observation). I see you do…

Added a github issue about the parent place restriction: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3423 Places like the districts in question here are what we call “ standard ” places and we soure them from GADM. Unfortuantely we can’t just update standard places piecemeal, they would all hav…

Thanks @tiwane that makes perfect sense and I can see it would indeed be a mammoth and never-ending task to update these boundaries piecemeal. I did take a look at GADM and I see that the current official district boundaries are actually their Level 2 divisions. Strangely the names are missing for 2…

First time creating a new Place

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