Getting errors off the map when Community ID is disabled

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Here is the situation: a user has submitted an observation with an incorrect ID. Several fellow naturalists have replied with correct ones at various levels of classification. However, the user has opted out of community ID, so the observation remains incorrectly identified. The problem is that this observation shows up on iNat’s map of the incorrect species, and since the non-community user is in the wrong hemisphere for this species, their mistake throws off the species’ entire range map.

I know that it’s possible to filter the map so that it shows only Research Grade observations, but is there any more effective way to get obviously wrong records like this off of iNat’s map?

I see where this topic was raised a few years ago by @brandonwoo , but nobody at that time came up with any solution to the problem…

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You could try tagging the observer, or messaging them. They might not have seen the disagreeing IDs. Some observers choose to globally opt out of the Community ID, and if they have thousands of observations, it’s hard for them to stay on top of all of the new ID suggestions.

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I think if you click ‘No the community ID is as good as it can be’ (assuming that is the case - if not, wait until a few more competent people have identified it) the observation will become casual…

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That is correct. If you come across an opted-out user, Place the appropriate ID, and click “No, ID can not be improved” at the bottom of the Data Quality Assessment. That will flip the observation to Casual and get it off the range maps and out of the way of future identifiers.

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Thanks all, the “as good as it can be” solution appears to have worked! And I did tag the observer; I think, if they do ever respond and fix their ID, the folks who used “as good as it can be” will reverse their action so the map can show the corrected ID…

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If the observer changes their ID to match the others, or removes their opt-out, there is no need for anyone to remove ‘as good as it can be’ - it will go straight to research grade. It only becomes casual when the CID and the opt-out ID are different.

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