# How to add two places to Traditional Project

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842 "2019-11-08T03:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842/1 "2019-11-08T03:18:17Z")

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Theoretically say I wanted a traditional project to cover Australia and New Zealand. I can’t figure out how to add more than one place. Is the only solution to create a new place that encompasses both places?

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842/2 "2019-11-08T03:35:33Z")

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Creating a place that large shouldn’t be possible. With traditional projects, this setting:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/4/4dab37de0919b3d020c645e8846164cf414009d9.png)

is mainly for the map display on the project page. It shouldn’t limit which observations can be added to a project. For that you would use the “Must be in place X” rules under Observation rules. Once the observations are added to the project, the main project page should zoom to show the observation’s projects. I just made this test project and added two test observations to it: [https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/au-and-nz-test](https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/au-and-nz-test)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/e/e3612fb297ccf8926875a1f492b9892e5a82c1a9.jpeg)

You won’t have fancy orange borders around the places, alas.

Here are the settings:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/d/d2fc7959b61289fa9a84c42c8f488dd41f87bcde.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842/3 "2019-11-08T03:37:18Z")

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Perfect Tony, you’re a legend :) I completely ignored the observation rules part.

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842/4 "2019-11-08T03:37:40Z")

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No worries, it’s confusing! May I delete that project and the observations?

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**Author:** ![thebeachcomber](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thebeachcomber/32/12748_2.png) [@thebeachcomber](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thebeachcomber)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842/5 "2019-11-08T03:38:22Z")

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yes definitely :)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-two-places-to-traditional-project/7842/6 "2020-01-07T03:38:23Z")

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