Hi Was curious to know when inaturalist came online in India / or became popular. I understand observations could be historical but is there a way of finding out when adoption of the app / data base took place - a sort of time line. As of today India has the following statistics OBSERVATIONS - 6…

You can filter observations for date uploaded, I don’t know how to find out which period was the start, but at least you can see when first observations were uploaded and with what rate.

I can think of a few ways to view observation data for India on a timeline. Within iNat, you can see a History chart on each taxon page – there is a filter in the upper right for location. The limitation is that the highest level is Kingdom, so you can’t see all observations at once. [image] …

Thank you this is wonderful IBF - India Biodiversity Portal began in 2008 and is supported by the top “institutions” – Inaturalist on the other hand has not had the same “institutional” support in India - so to me it is pretty amazing that in slightly shorter time span the organic growth of inatu…

Thanks @marina_gorbunova I think @jwidness 's post below got the information I was looking for.

The earliest observation posted on inaturalist (for India) is this one https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80799811 , though posted in 2021 it is still great to see such observations. FYI

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How to find out when a country came online on Inaturalist (Specific reference India)

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