I made an achievements app using iNat api

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just added that, it is very interesting because now you can filter by countries, cities, parks, etc… You can check your first observed species in a very granular way

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I really hope you could get these officially affiliated with Inat!

Could I add your API website link into my Introduction to iNaturalist slideshow? If not it’s all good.

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Could the wording be changed for observation quality? It implies that some observations are of worse quality and seems derogatory when it is simply separating the needs id(which can be rg in the future) and casual(which might be casual because captive and not because obs quality is bad)

Could you add a species to observation ratio and/or a avg species per day based on lifelist/days since joining?

Maybe add a stat for number of journal posts and number of comments, both are retrievable in some way I think.

Which identification count are you displaying? Mine is inaccurate

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Fantastic, thank you! There are more than I expected wow. Also kind of sad for the tropical countries I’ve visited that there are few enough observers that I could get so many country firsts on my brief vacation visits.

I think the common names aren’t working? Also am I right in assuming it’s only showing ranks of species level or lower? I think it would also be interesting to see if you are the first observer of higher ranks, e.g. the first observation of any member of a whole family.

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Did some changes, now it will return higher ranks as well and common names

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Sure, no problem about adding to the slideshow

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I checked out the https://glauberramos.github.io/inat/profile tool for my profile. The World Observation map shows there are observations in New Zealand, which is correct, but the Countries and Regions Observed, does not include New Zealand. I am curious as to why it isn’t included.

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Is there a way to track taxa that you are the first Identifier for? I think that would be very interesting to see! I know I’ve added IDs for a few new species to iNat but I’ve not kept track of them all.

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I fixed the issue; you can test again.

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I will create a tool for first identifications, will post it here once it’s done.

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You can check now using this first version of the tool https://glauberramos.github.io/inat/first-identifier

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Should I exclude observations made by the user?

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Yess, thank you, that’s so cool! I did not realize I was the first identifier for 37 species. A few of them are relatively common but under reported or were incorrectly ID’ed to a similar species.

I’m not sure I have a strong opinion on this. I guess by excluding those it would discourage people from erroneously adding new species to their own observations? But also, there are several experts that search for and post less common species.

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I think you should include them. Or possibly have a toggle for included/excluded?

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I got 32, but there are some weird ones.. e.g.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/269079382

I obviously am not the first one suggesting that ID.. I have a coupke of those… I also think IDs on your own observations should be included

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It works fine now. Thanks.

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There is only one observation of that species on the site. Aside from the observer, you are the first identifier.

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But the onserver was the first IDer then..

I have other species with several older observations IDed by the observer, but I seem to be the first one that ever agreed to such an ID suggestion.. that seems weird to me to be called first IDer then

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I think observations made by the identifier should be included, but non-research-grade observations should be excluded. That way people who both post and ID the first example get credit instead of the first person to confirm the ID, but someone else does have to confirm it first, so people won’t be tempted to add random IDs to observations.

If either option is made configurable, the above should at least be the default.

(BTW, I have 60 at the moment - way more than I was expecting. I thought I’d have maybe as many as 20. So, thank you for this, it surfaces some information which is really difficult to get!)

Edit: it’s going really slowly for the last hundred taxa or so - is something wrong, or is this expected behaviour?

Edit: seems to have gone into an infinite loop, stuck on 4058/4062 taxa, batches going up continuously.

Edit: same thing when I restricted the location, went into a loop at 2357/2365 taxa this time.

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Now it’s only research grade, and your own observations counts

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