I would like to create a list of all the species that I observed on my property.
We have over 100 acres of bush/wetland and I am trying to record as many animals and plants as possible. But how can I find out which observation is on my property and not in the nearby park or town? Thanks for your help!
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when you look at your observations in the map view, there are two little orange icons (a square and a circle) that let you “draw” a region into the map, and then you can see your observations from within that area you selected!
Edit: alternatively (or if your property is a shape you can’t approximate with those map tools), I think you can also tag your observations and then filter by your tags, but I haven’t tested this so idk how well it works!
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But how does it treat the circle of “accuracy”? If Echocreak wants to exclude observations from adjacent properties, do they need to only select obs where the whole circle lies within their boundary?
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Or maybe where the center of the circle lies within their boundary? Using the whole circle would exclude observations on the fence lines/edges of the property.
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Thank you, that might solve my question
Some people create a project for their own property. If you do this it would help in going forward, as long as you remember to put new observations into it. Retroactively, you could use the suggestion above to draw a boundary, and put everything you find within it into your project. Maybe the ones that are near the edges of the boundary will need careful scrutiny to see if they’re really on your property.
It looks like you have many thousands of observations, so it’s probably a big job! Good luck!
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Yes but the sighting is supposed to be somewhere within the circle. If it was always at the centre, there wouldn’t be any need for the circle.
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The most robust way to do this is to create a “place” for your property. That way it will incorporate the boundaries as closely as you want and handle the issues mentioned above. You can read about the process here: https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000175019-how-to-make-a-place-on-inaturalist
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Thank you for the suggestion, I will try that one. As I have problems with the “Orange Icons in the Map settings” because I have some settings as obscured location and this observations are now visible to me, but these obscured location are posted all over the area (app. 20km x 40km) and not on my property
I believe this is another advantage of using a place. If I limit my search for an obscured taxon in a place where I know I have seen it, it will list them in the explore mode. For example. If I understand how it works correctly, no-one else will see any records for this search but I see my 6 records from this place. So it may also help with your obscured records. The pins don’t show up on the map but if you click into a specific observation then you can see that detail again. I checked in another case where I have obscured them myself and it works the same way.
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