The Explore page ( www.inaturalist.org/observations ), sometimes called “observations search” or “obs search”, was written in code which is older and now out of sync than newer parts of the site such as Identify and observation details. This means that rather than add new functionality to the current …

I would like all the photos on the Explore page, instead of just the first one, so that it isn’t necessary to click in and out to see the rest of them.

I want more options for the ‘species’ tab, so that I can choose to see most observed taxon at any level – e.g., if I want to quickly know how many Carduinae observations there are in Israel, or which Order of plants has the most obs, let me set a filter to change what taxonomic level the ‘species’ t…

consolidate the Location / Place filter boxes. i’d like to be able to save and name queries. i’d like access to my most commonly used saved queries in a dropdown list under the Explore button in the main navigation bar at the top of the page. i’d like an advanced query editor / query builder that a…

In the FILTER: . show ranks below species (or at a chosen higher taxon rank) in SPECIES tab . options for order: add taxonomic, random, comments . allow exclusion (not_in) of places, people . allow in or not_in of atlas range map . allow observation fields and observation field values (a…

Perhaps the ability to filter marine species from land? Currently the searchable regions show a bias towards terrestrial boundaries. Maybe something ocean or sea specific.

A few smallish improvements that would be nice: Multi-selection of photo licensing. So I don’t have to look at each license type individually when several would be fine. Not sure if this should be automatic (e.g. CC-BY-NC would include the strictly more permissive CC-BY and CC0 as well) or fully m…

I second the request for “has comments” filter. While we’re at it, “has annotations”

[image] pisum: i’d like to be able to save and name queries. i’d like access to my most commonly used saved queries in a dropdown list under the Explore button in the main navigation bar at the top of the page. [image] reuvenm: This current selection of checkboxes seems kinda weird - intr…

Since Location is useful to the USA I would like a setting to toggle Filter by Place as my default instead of Location, which I don’t / can’t use for ‘Cape Town’ - all obs become Marine. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/searching-for-cape-town-shows-cape-town-marine/8164 That top and centre real…

Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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upupa-epops December 5, 2019, 2:20pm 15

I think this feature request might address that: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/implement-standard-marine-places-for-the-worlds-oceans/1458

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Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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