Right now looks like the forum and maybe the iNat help email are the ways for users to get help with fixing place boundaries. There isn’t a way to flag a place for curation on the iNaturalist website. The most common issues that come up with existing places are fixing incorrect boundaries and deleti…

Looks like this has been implemented. [Screen Shot 2021-08-12 at 4.48.33 PM] It’s also been added to the <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/flags?utf8=%E2%9C%93&flagger_type=any&flagger_name=&flagger_user_id=&user_name=&user_id=&flaggable_type=Place&deleted=any&flags%5B%5D=spam&flags%5B%5D=copyright+infringement&flags%5B%5D=inappropriate&flags%5B%5D=other&reason_query=&resolved=any&resolver_name=&resolver_user_id=&commit=Filter&utf8=%E2%9C%93&flagger_user_id=&commit=Filter" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">flag search .

Yes please! There are also issues with non-editable non-standard places – I think maybe something to do with merging an editable place to a non-editable place, but it’s never been particularly clear to me. Should I add that to the related improvements list?

Apparently I’m out of votes, but yes, please!

[image] bouteloua: Right now looks like the forum and maybe the iNat help email are the ways for users to get help with fixing place boundaries. What is the preferred method of reporting problems with places? I noticed a duplicate of a county which has no boundary and also a place called “ poi…

As far as I’m aware there isn’t currently a preferred place to report such errors.

I removed the 2 places that were just a point.

Made an issue for this: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2472

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Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
What's the appropriate way to get a place boundary updated? General question	12	1224	August 5, 2021
Creating places appropriate? General question	8	2607	July 25, 2019
Editing a place boundary General	19	2649	May 24, 2019
How are a place's borders defines? General question	8	184	March 31, 2025
Unable to edit community curated place Bug Reports staff-can-replicate , issue-made	11	380	April 2, 2024

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