I am trying to get more involved with iNat in my home state of Colorado. Especially trying to key in on groups that seem to lack consistent reviewers. What I have noticed are several cases of species where there are many (>25) identifications in an area where species are mis-identified. This is then…

No, I went through this a few years ago with plants (Genus Lupinus). It is a, shall we say, shortcoming of this site. The more people mis-identify something, the more people get the suggestion that an organism is present in an area. What can you do? Make a Journal post about it, then link to that p…

Are the computer vision’s species’ location dictionaries locked to when it gets rolled out or are they plastic after? That would be a fantastical dream, but it doesn’t hurt to ask!

Do you know what the Wiki list is trying to accomplish? Is it so the algorithm developers can improve the software, or is it to recruit more people to look at these species?

I think it is the latter for the benefit of the former.

If you’re overwhelmed by the number of misidentifications, make a forum or journal post about the problem, tag a bunch of friends and acquaintances, and we’ll give you a hand (if we know enough to help)

Yep, as others have said, you have to deal with this one by one. A good approach to it is to write out a list of reasonings to refute the ID, perhaps even include a reference to a scientific paper or two. Thus you can just copy and paste this into your identifications, and it can give the user’s som…

[image] edanko: make a forum or journal post about the problem, tag a bunch of friends and acquaintances, and we’ll give you a hand (if we know enough to help) Maybe even put together a visual key!

The point is to make the data that the model learns from better so that future iterations of the model won’t make the same mistakes.

Much appreciated everyone. I’ll just start chipping away. Hopfully people will start to see my comments as time goes by. The suggestion for the journal is a good one, I’ve not done that yet.

How best to approach large scale identification issues

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upupa-epops February 18, 2021, 9:13pm 20

Here’s a thread for that purpose: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/help-me-identify-non-experts-welcome/2915

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