Yesterday I took a few photos in Salem-Oregon with a Nikon DSLR in jpeg format. I uploaded the images directly as-is. The meta tags should be all intact, including the dates.
The uploads did not show up in Salem-Oregon for a day. And then when they did show up, they showed a date of 2023. I had to manually edit all the photos. Then they disappeared from the Salem-Oregon Observations page. (perhaps for another day?)
What is happening? Am I doing something wrong?
Here are the few I photographed and posted yesterday, but the date anomaly happened on my prior posts too. I am new here.
is the clock on your camera set correctly? when i look at one of the photo records from one of your observations, it seems to show that iNat saw the date on the photo was from 2023: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/464867448.
what does this mean? can you provide more information? what is exact the URL of the page where you’re seeing this problem?
I am looking into the camera features right now. Turns out there is a second internal rechargeable battery that uses the main battery to stay healthy. And it is the one that retains time settings. I suspect that second battery has a problem because I had verified the correct date/time multiple times. But also removed the main battery multiple times.
The posts-disappearing issue:
Go to Observations
Enter Salem and it gives “Salem, OR, USA” automatically
Shows all recent observations from everyone in this area
Goes from 4h to 10d on the first page
(As I type this, I just saw that the corrected-date photos from this morning just showed up a few hours later. It is good, so there is some delay. Yesterday’s posts showed up overnight.)
So where will all those other observations I posted last few days show up? They were posted this week but date-taken was in the past. I presume nobody who visits the Observations-Salem page will see them?
By default, the Explore page lists observations based on date the observation was posted (that’s the date of first posting, not subsequent edits), with most recent first, so your posts would be a few days down on the list by now, but not two years down. (You can change this order in the “Filters” section, under “Sort by”.
If you want to see just your own observations to be sure they are showing, click “Filters”, then “More Filters”, then enter your username under “Person” and click “Go”.
Another hint about places in the explore page: entering a location in the top bar will often just give you a location generated by Google Maps, in the case of Salem, OR a larger rectangle around the city. If you just want to see things in the city itself, under “More Filters” there is a “Place” box that searches for iNaturalist “places” (either default or user-defined places) – type in “City of Salem” and choose the best match and you will get observations within the city limits, like this.
I just posted 6 new observations and took notes of the dates. I will see if/when/how they will be shown at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations with the default location set to “City of Salem, Oregon, USA”. The 6 photos date ranging from today to 7 months back. They show up on my profile’s observations page, but not Salem’s page.
Then I will be able to post some url info here in the thread.
when you don’t post exact URLs or sceenshots, you’re sort of forcing others to guess what you’re looking at. even though you’re describing a process, there are varous ways each of those steps you talked about could be executed. so it’s a little ambiguous what you’re doing just based on your text.
just for reference, the last part of the second link above talks about how filtering by standard places can find results in some cases when filtering by other places or other areas will not. you can see how that works when you filter by the “standard” county place rather than the community-created city place you tried to use: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?id=259182827&place_id=538&taxon_id=47170&verifiable=any