Hmm…
this thread started out with:
How to encourage users to provide a more precise position
and has ended up with:
These are the problems I have and how I deal with them.
re: the first bit, my comment is:
I agree with the general thrust of all the above. Better precision would be good.
But law of unintended consequences. People who get told that 2km, or 100m, is not good enough will try to get their precious observations accepted by claiming much greater precision. So fish on a named mountain top, precision 5 meter. Something next to a named homestead, precision 10m, when it couldn’t possibly have grown within 10km.
I’ve written in other threads, when I’m working with a database produced by iNat + other sources, I’m happy to use or exclude obs with based on a stated location uncertainty. But I’m always fearful of all the ones (and I’ve seen it done), that wrongly claim great precision, just to get their observation noticed.