I created a polygon in Google Earth and saved as a polygon. I’m getting the error “There were problems importing that place: Place geometry contains too many observations to import, Place geometry can’t be blank”. I’m skeptical that there are too many observations, as it’s mostly ocean and two adjac…

I would strongly suspect it really is too many observations. If you look at how many observations Manatee and Hillsborough Counties have on iNat, it’s about 250,000. [image] On GBIF (which is only getting the subset that are RG and appropriately licensed), Manatee and Hillsborough Counties have …

Wow, nice sleuthing and thank you! It looks like the highest concentration of records is right along the coast, so I wonder if I can get the iNat FL boundary into Google Earth and redraw my poly so that it barely goes over that if that will exclude enough.

Yes, reducing my polygon along the shoreline to barely overlap the Florida, USA iNat boundary worked! It would be nice if the error message only had the part about the too many occurrences, as that was the actual issue.

How do I fix "Place geometry can't be blank" from trying to create a place?

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How do I fix "Place geometry can't be blank" from trying to create a place?

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