How does Places of interest gets filled ? When do you get to see this which is Tottally useless [image] And how do you get this…? How can you get this ? Which setting populate it to something usefull ? I should expect something like germany.inaturalist.org France.inaturalist.org belgium.inatur…

They come from a call to the places/nearby API endpoint . I believe the standard places are sorted first by admin level, then by distance. The community places are sorted by bounding box size.

Not sure exactly how they get picked, but if you zoom in it only shows the ones in the extent you’re viewing, even if you don’t have a bounding box. [Screen Shot 2021-12-15 at 2.04.18 PM]

I get places al arouind the world why another user just get places in the netherlands. How does this work ? Do i have to zoom in all the time ? It should be fileld with usefull places When is this setting used ? Never ??? [image]

As Thomas said, it shows places based on the current extent of your map. If you want places in the Netherlands, you should zoom in to the Netherlands. If you put the Netherlands as your default search place in your account settings, you will always start zoomed in to the Netherlands. [image] I th…

But what exactly “popular” mean? Number of observations?

What “popular” are you referring to?

Sorry, “of interest”, as how interest is measured?

Any place can be in the list. It has to be in the current map extent, then the list is sorted by admin level, distance, and size, as I said above. I don’t think “of interest” actually means anything here, it could just say nearby places.

Netherlands IS default search area, but it does nothing with it. But i am aways surprised it uses world as default. Other applications and websites guess where you are. It is also not possible to choose a default zoom level as “Current or actual place” [image]

I have for ages, it is never used ORIGINAL SETTING [image]

How does Places of interest gets filled

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jwidness December 15, 2021, 7:02pm 2

If you think there is a bug, please fill out all the sections of the bug report. If you are just asking a question, this should go in the general category.

I don’t understand what you think should be displayed compared to what is actually displayed.

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How does Places of interest gets filled

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