I routinely use groupings of regions, like there is one “Northeastern United States and Canada” that I find super useful: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=59956 and: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=52250 when choosing where to do ID’s, because some species I am…

[image] cazort: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=59956 and: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=52250 I’m just learning about places myself but, to get you started, the two URLs you posted above correspond to the following pair of places: https://www.inatural…

You can search for place & create places here . I don’t think there is a way of browsing places on a map at the moment.

It’s not really browsing via a map per se, but I just look at the explore map, pick an observation about where I am interested, and go to it’s observation page, and from there I can click on “more details” under location in order to see the list of places that contain that GPS location. Opening them…

On the web “Explore” page you can click on the “Places of Interest” button to see both standard places (mostly states and counties, mostly with a hierarchy) and user-created places, which vary from someone’s backyard to entire continents. The giant user created places became a big strain on the serv…

Thanks! This is all incredibly useful, thank you everyone! I have one more question. One of the users has very nicely added all the Level 4 US EPA ecoregions, and I would love to be able to search and filter by these regions on the observation and identifications page, but it doesn’t look like you …

Have you tried using Place rather than Location? [image]

Wow, I had no idea there was a separate “Place” field buried in there, that completely addresses it! Thank you so much! I now just need to figure out how to get the Level 1, 2 and 3 ecoregions imported and I’ll be good to go, and I’m sure I’ll be able to figure that out.

As mentioned above, non-staff don’t have the ability to add large places because it puts such a huge strain on the system (every single observation within the boundaries needs to be re-indexed). You could try making a feature request maybe? The US is so observose I’m not sure they’ll consider it t…

Oh yeah, that makes sense that that would put a huge load on the system especially if a lot of users were creating large and/or detailed regions. I’ve found from my own work with GIS that the load placed on a server is often heavily dependent on the detail of the region too. I haven’t checked to see…

[image] cazort: I now just need to figure out how to get the Level 1, 2 and 3 ecoregions imported and I’ll be good to go, and I’m sure I’ll be able to figure that out. The trick is to find a KML file that describes the boundary of the region you’re interested in. The KML file is then used to …

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