My standard ‘circle of confusion’ is 2 km around a fixed spot that is not my home. The vast majority of my observations fall within that circle. I will not use a more precise position because my personal safety is more important to me than anything else.
- I am reluctant to leave a trail on iNat or any other platform. Where I go, and when, is my business, not anyone else’s.
- I do not trust/like Google. I have location services and any other Google stuff disabled on my Android phone.
- Nevertheless, in a few instances where the exact spot of an observation mattered to a researcher, I provided the exact coordinates, by email, with a detailed description of the specific place (vegetation, habitat, roads, human presence, weather, whatever was relevant).