I have been trying to create a distinct place in iNaturalist for a biological survey of a local park. I created a KML file, loaded it into iNaturalist, and I had thought that iNaturalist would collect a survey of all of the observations that occur within the polygon formed by that KML file and return them as a summary. However, I noticed that after I created the project and the polygon defining the locality was successfully defined, no observations appeared in the “observations” tab. I tried looking up instructions for how to use the “Places” function, but couldn’t find any indication as to how to get a list of observations for that location. I see there is a “life list” function, but it seems to only define taxa a priori and every species must be entered manually, rather than including reports of observations that are new to a particular area.
Does anyone know how to get observations to appear for a certain place once the KML polygon for that place has been defined?
If you make a collection project for the place (as opposed to a traditional project), starting at https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/new , the observations should appear automatically. If you have already made a collection project, could you provide a link to it?
@russell_engelman you could use your newly create place to create a collection project or simply do a search on it to get a list of all observations and species in that area.
“Places” also have the possibility to enable “Check lists allowed?” which automatically create a checklist for that place.
