How to override GPS data recorded when GPS is about to fail and gives unreliable data

The transition from fully functional GPS to unavailable GPS is not instantaneous. In one recent instance, the failure took about half an hour to become total, and some radically inaccurate readings were recorded in the interim.

An AI bot suggested that one can simply open the sighting, click on the location data, and update the GPS values manually. This would appear to be AI at its most naively unreliable; I tried this as author of the sighting and nothing happened. Is there a way to override the GPS data? I note that GPS provides an indication of its own accuracy, but that trust in this is not notably strong.

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you can edit any of the location data for any of your observations at any time, including the coordinates themselves and the accuracy circle value associated with them. Could you explain how you tried editing your record(s) so we can understand why it didn’t seem to work

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On any of your own observations, click the ‘Edit’ button, choose the ‘edit’ menu, and there you reach a new page (e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258351452/edit ) where you can alter its “Lat:” and “Lon”:" coordinates (and “Acc (m):” the accuracy obviously) to your liking.

It is also possible to change coordinates for many of your observations at once, but this is perhaps not what you’re after.

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Or - if you don’t have GPS like me.
Tip the map to satellite view. Zoom in and place the location pin where you want it.
Tweak the text in Location Notes to suit yourself.

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