While I appreciate that generalising locations of observations of Vulnerable species (IUCN listed) is a good idea for their protection, this can confound project data, when it pushes an occurrence outside the area of a geographically bound project. Let me give you a more specific example. I recentl…

(moved from Bug Reports because this is expected behavior) Obscured observations are not publicly indexed as being within a place if the place is too small (for a more detailed explanation, please see this FAQ ). This is to prevent someone from narrowing down an obscured observation’s true location,…

Generalising of vulnerable species can push records out of project boundaries

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Generalising of vulnerable species can push records out of project boundaries

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