# How to encourage users to provide a more precise position **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [June 15, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-encourage-users-to-provide-a-more-precise-position/42565 "2023-06-15T12:42:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-encourage-users-to-provide-a-more-precise-position/42565/101 "2023-08-04T23:13:08Z")
It really depends on what they are using, since you said a phone, I would guess an app, but can you tell which one (iOS or Android) by looking at the observations? The interfaces are a little different. ---
**Author:** ![jnstuart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jnstuart/32/1623_2.png) [@jnstuart](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jnstuart)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 11:21pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-encourage-users-to-provide-a-more-precise-position/42565/102 "2023-08-04T23:21:26Z")
It’s the Android app on a Motorola phone. I’m not familiar with either. ---
**Author:** ![cbirds22](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cbirds22/32/34410_2.png) [@cbirds22](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cbirds22)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-encourage-users-to-provide-a-more-precise-position/42565/103 "2023-08-05T02:15:44Z")
> [@jnstuart](#): > > the accuracy circle around the location is often huge, covering a big chunk of North America! How does this happen and how can they keep this from happening? The [Android app has a known problem](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-accuracy-expands-when-opening-saving-location/16225) of occasionally getting the accuracy vastly incorrect. For example, when using a pinned location with a set accuracy, it may change the accuracy circle to a much greater area, such as half of North America. To correct, one simply needs to reselect the correct location. ---
**Author:** ![Italopithecus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/italopithecus/32/42879_2.png) [@Italopithecus](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Italopithecus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-encourage-users-to-provide-a-more-precise-position/42565/104 "2023-08-10T08:28:24Z")
I have just had an exchange of points of view with a user that posted some observations (of cultivated plants left unmarked) featuring the position with a radius of 3-300 km. When asking to manage a little bit better these observations, I have been replied that this person, substantially, for the moment has not enough time to add a precise position and that this will be done later. Of course, I do not want to generalize nor to judge how people should spend their time. Anyway, what about just suggesting people to stop for a while and to take the right time to make things well? I think that in this way there could more possibilities to appreciate some less visible details of an experience in nature. ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-encourage-users-to-provide-a-more-precise-position/42565/105 "2023-08-10T11:04:20Z")
> [@Italopithecus](#): > > this will be done later If that was in my ID queue - Mark as Reviewed - Next. Someone else can retrieve the ones that languish. Perhaps years later … but it will never be top of the queue again. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-encourage-users-to-provide-a-more-precise-position/42565/106 "2023-10-09T11:04:59Z")
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