I know, but that doesn’t make it any less tiresome.
FYI, I looked up the methods of the new paper (featured in the October 2024 News Highlights) that “combined over 600,000 iNaturalist observations with remote sensing images in AI models to publish the highest resolution maps yet of plant distributions across California.”
They used an accuracy threshold of 120 meters (~400 feet) : "We collected observations from kingdom Plantae using GBIF.org from the years 2015-2022. Only records observed by humans with a coordinate uncertainty radius of less than or equal to 120m with no flagged geospatial issues were taken from within the state of California. Nearly all of the subsequent observations were public observations uploaded using the iNaturalist app.
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Thanks for the info. Am I right that they didn’t include the records that lacked the accuracy?
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Yes, they excluded observations that didn’t meet their accuracy threshold.
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