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 …

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.

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

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…

Has comments filter / filter by number of comments - A great way to learn about a taxon is to read the biggest “argument” on an observation Filter by time of year Custom filtering functionality similar to iNaturalist.org/observations/compare , especially the color coding (Should color code th…

[image] treichard: Figure out a way to have the prominent Location and buried Place search fields combined into a single search field and still work well. I know some non-power users who don’t understand the difference between the two fields and some don’t even know there are two. Something a…

This may be a small thing, but it’s one that has bothered me for a while… If I have obscured the location of an observation, looking at the observation itself shows me the exact location in the small map on the right, because it’s my observation. But on the Explore page, it shows that same observat…

Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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brennafarrell December 5, 2019, 4:10pm 18

I second these requests.

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Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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