I guess this is the converse of https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-do-you-think-about-habitat-sound/20547 I have added habitat shots to audio records for context in the past, however I’ve seen recent advice of an identifier to observer(s) that this is not acceptable. I was not able to dig out any…

[image] pmeisenheimer: There are all sorts of things that would be really wonderful additions to iNat. I am absolutely certain that the people who run the site have a very long list of upgrades they would like to do. This is true, unfortunately, and adding functionality for annotating individ…

yay…more irritating software manipulation. how about not?

Seems like it’d be a good idea in general to have some way to mark a picture as “supplemental information” or “don’t feed this to the AI”. Also to put the audio observation first rather than having the picture dominate the observation.

There are all sorts of things that would be really wonderful additions to iNat. I am absolutely certain that the people who run the site have a very long list of upgrades they would like to do. They all require investment of time and money in a not-for-profit context, by an organization that has exp…

I think his point was that the impact habitat photos have on the CV is negligible, not nonexistent.

[image] pmeisenheimer: What conceivable reason does anybody have to lie about it? Yeah, I’m not calling people liars. I’m just saying this is a red herring that the forum community has fixated on and it shouldn’t form the basis for policy decisions without better evidence. [image] pmeisen…

About being able to find that photo, of habitat for example https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/assign-metadata-to-individual-photos-such-as-flowers-leaves-fruit/1111/2 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-a-dqa-choice-for-survey-photos/190/5 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/sort-by-type-angle-of-phot…

[image] tristanmcknight: Yeah, I’m not calling people liars. You are saying that the narrative expressed by the people responsible for building and maintaining the site is untrue. There are few explanations that square with that assertion and none are complimentary. They have asked that the c…

After reading through this thread, it seems we really to need two things: The current discussion, which will help come to an agreement on the most useful ways to add a variety if media to an observation. A discussion that can lead to a request for enhancement of the the database, to the software r…

Why wouldn’t the sound recording be the evidence that you ask for?

Habitat shots acceptable with audio observations?

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Habitat shots acceptable with audio observations?

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