I’m trying to use the URL search to find observations that do not an annotation set to any value. I haven’t been able to figure it out. I see I’m supposed to be able to show observations that don’t have a specific annotation, but I can’t make that work. Here is an example trying to find my observat…

You can do this with Identify without the need to edit the url. You need to click “More Filters”. This gives: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch%2Ccasual&taxon_id=47124&place_id=7320&user_id=jbecky&without_term_id=12 So it looks like “&verifiable=an…

[image] jbecky: What am I doing wrong? i don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. although the Identify screen was designed with the “without annotation” parameter, it doesn’t look like the Observation screen was designed to utilize it. it looks like there may have been attempt to implement “…

The way the API works for finding observations with control terms is that to exclude a control term value, you need to also enter the control term id. So in this case, the control term is is 12 (Plant Phenology), and if we want to exclude the flowering stage the control term value of 13 must be adde…

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