Hi. I own a block of private conservation land in Australia and want to start cataloging species. I believe this app will be a great way for the family to collect data that others can assist in verifying, and that might end up being useful to the wider community via the Atlas of Living Australia. M…

You are running up against 2 conflicting priorities, projects whose objective is to share data, and your desire to obscure the locations. By design, unless the geography involved is quite large (on the scale of hundreds of square kilometers), projects will not show or incorporate records which are …

Thanks so much for your response, Chris. It’s very helpful. Forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between a collection project and a ‘traditional’ project? Am I right in understanding that, in a collection project, attempts to include obscured recordings won’t work. If, on the other han…

A collection project automatically includes all observations which meet the criteria of the projects. Observers do not have to act to get their records into it. However, obscured records, as noted unless it covers a very large geography will not be collected. Even your own records as the project adm…

That’s great, thanks for the explanation. I haven’t used the platform much before and wanted to have an idea of whether it’s going to serve the purpose before getting everyone set up. Looks like it’s going to be a winner for us! I really appreciate your time.

Our land is small (1.5 acres) but I set up a traditional project for it and manually add observations to it along with a few friends. Since the parcel is so small creating a collection project would defeat the purpose of obscuring. It’s been lots of fun and I’ve found over 400 species. You can find…

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Help setting up a project for private land

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