For an organization that I am working for this summer, I want to take a look at what species I can see in our survey zone. It’s going to look something like this: [image] This is the best method I can find to represent this polygon, but it’s four-sided and includes lots of land I don’t want. [i…

You could load your data needed in qGIS (please see this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-import-v2-0-0-a-qgis-plugin-for-field-naturalists/74611 ) and cross-cut it with the border layer of your monitoring region. The remaining is the data which is in your region which you can e.…

Are the areas for the surveys based on existing borders – e.g. certain counties or parks? If all of the smaller units exist as places on iNat, you may be able to put together a search that includes multiple places by URL manipulation.

If you only use research grade observations, you can use GBIF.org to download iNat data with custom boundaries and unlimited number of observations. You can use whatever program you want to examine the CSV data. GBIF offers multiple datasets in case you want to get additional datasets.

I would just download the data and filter by location offline using whatever method is preferred.

Are you able to filter it to only species you haven’t observed? I have a quick save URL to specifically look for species I haven’t seen, and that’s kind of the goal I’m aiming for. I was thinking a good alternative, is to add Great Plains locations for each state since ecological polygons can provi…

This is kind of what I’m thinking. Five polygons for each state and make a URL to cover all 5 polygons. [image]

New places can’t contain more than 200k observations. I suspect some or all of those polygons contain more than 200k observations.

I would do a list with all species observed in the region. Then a second list with your own observed species in the region. Then subtract the latter from the former. In GIS this could be done with different layers. Or, if a list is sufficient, do it in Excel (e.g. copying both lists together and …

Is there any kind of workaround for this? I want to be able to view this list from descending order of observation counts, similar to following link: Observations · iNaturalist I’m not sure if Excel will produce those kinds of results.

[image] birdwhisperer: Is there any kind of workaround for this? No, the limits are there so that no one can slow down the site for everyone else.

How to look up observations without a defined location?

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chbluete February 20, 2026, 7:32am 14

For the missing ones: perhaps this tool could be an easier solution?

https://kildor.name/inat/missed-species

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