Hey everyone, I already read some solutions in the forum, but i couldnt identify a solution that works for me. I’m trying to build a structured dataset for a project that uses iNaturalist’s taxonomy. Specifically, I’d like to download all mammals, but not the observations — just the taxa data acc…

Hi everyone. I am one step further in creating a json or csv of all mammals with geo bounding boxes. THE GOAL interface GeoHook = { // Reference “id”: 42223, “common_name”: “White-tailed Deer”, “wikipedia_url”: “ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer” // Geography p9714: “min_lat: ……

It’s very hard to tell from your post what you’re actually looking for – observations or taxa? points or bounding boxes or polygons? all taxa or only observed taxa? It would probably help to start by describing what you’re actually trying to accomplish instead of jumping right to the implementation…

[image] WorldPeaceEngineLabs: Maybe i misunderstood the heatmap and thats just a fixed set of squares that is highlighted if an observation point exists inside them :sweat_smile: yes, the orange squares are observation locations

[image] WorldPeaceEngineLabs: :construction: LAST THING MISSING Where do i get the below information? Couldnt find any in the taxa nor observations. Does it exist at all? p2974: “urban, ocean, forest, desert, mangroove, arctic, tundra etc.“, // Environment type }; Is this an LLM response…

If you’re looking for the documented range of a species and the habitat types, you’re probably better served by the IUCN red list, where you can get both of those things: [image] Not only do iNat observation locations not represent the full range for almost any mammal, especially at fine scales, …

How to download all mammals (taxa only, not observations)?

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pisum October 5, 2025, 10:35am 2

some relevant discussion: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-there-a-tool-code-snippet-that-allows-downloading-of-taxonomy-data-from-the-site/14268

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How to download all mammals (taxa only, not observations)?

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