Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

The observations page ( The Explore page (www.inaturalist.org/observations) is rather good so do not throw away too much!!
I would like a non-graphical fast grid/ Excel oriented display with no photos and no avatars and no ornament but with quick easy filter options on, for example countries, states or huge regions.

And NO avatars for observations or observers.
And absolute date references in stead of 1month, 1year (or Yesterday.)

A bit like creating subdomains
belgium.inaturalist.org
netherlands.inaturalist.org
germany.inaturalist.org and everything related to german

In this overview there is no absoluut date but just 2 month etc. Can dat be real dates in stead of a period without giving any information if you are looking for detailed information?
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=grid&user_id=ahospers&verifiable=false

The buttons are too much hidden:

Move the buried Identify and Download buttons out of the Filter

Abbitly to move the buttons from the map

Bring the buttons and observations outside the map so they’re not covering it.

If annotations get more used i would also like to add them in the observation search page. A bit like this…with symbols. I must agree that especially the more experienced, more frequent users will benefit from it, but i also think this is faster for the observer to find it information but for the database too. Nearly all information available in one line.

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