How can you treat multiple observations that depict the same individual?

I think this can be an issue if someone wants to use the data for research purposes. In these case, it would be necessary, and probably feasible, to gather all the observations of the same species placed in a circle of n meters radius.
In other cases, maybe, it could be better to leave this issue behind as there are far more serious ones. By the way, I usually identify just one of these repeated observations of the same species in the same place.