Hi all… I’m writing my own app to fetch iNaturalist data, and I want to be able to map my own textual placenames to iNaturalist’s internal place_id values. The only post I found about something similar was this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-there-a-place-where-i-can-go-to-get-a-list-of-inat…

http://www.inaturalist.org/places/inaturalist-places.csv.zip

Thanks for that, @jwidness - is this a link that’s advertised on the site, or just something you know if you work at iNat? :-)

it was posted by staff here on the forum, but I’ll admit, I sometimes have trouble finding the link myself :sweat_smile: [image] Use Wikidata for place names and Wikipedia descriptions Let me know if this works for you: http://www.inaturalist.org/places/inaturalist-places.csv.zip

FWIW, I just added a link to https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/developers

How to get complete list of place_id values, one per US state or world country?

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jwidness March 28, 2025, 2:45am 4

it was posted by staff here on the forum, but I’ll admit, I sometimes have trouble finding the link myself

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How to get complete list of place_id values, one per US state or world country?

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