# How iNat Determines location name

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**Created:** [May 13, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-inat-determines-location-name/31864 "2022-05-13T22:32:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasonhernandez74](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jasonhernandez74/32/33615_2.png) [@jasonhernandez74](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jasonhernandez74)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-inat-determines-location-name/31864/5 "2022-05-18T02:19:30Z")

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You can edit it. In this screenshot, you can see locations that I edited to fit my conception of the place:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/4/0/40d8973b97add15ed31307dc5aec5911e79e6f7c.png)  
Avera, Taputapuapea, French Polynesia is what iNat chose for all of them; you can see that for a couple, I added “Three Waterfalls Trail,” and for a couple others “Piscine au Barrage,” which is not an actual named place, but just means “Pool at the Dam,” a descriptor. Chestnut-breasted Munia, however, is still at the default location.

You can go back after the fact and edit the location:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/b/0/b0724650638aebad6ebde2391150ca1b371e3fe3.jpeg)  
In the “Where were you?” form, you can see my cursor right before the word “Avera.” I typed in "Three Waterfalls Trail, " for this one, too. Then I scrolled down, clicked “Save Observation,” and in this final screenshot, you can see that it has changed:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/6/e/6e74499484b4876cf461f5a52e464dce3e43b1bc.png)

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