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 …

Apologies if this has been raised elsewhere, but I’d really like it if the map labels and borders were drawn over the observation heatmap, especially when there are a lot of observations that meet the selected filters. If this is not possible, having the heatmap be a bit transparent would help. Cur…

It would be great if the new explore page had the iconic orange raster of records on the iNaturalist maps at higher levels of zoom. With the increasing number of records the map is becoming unusable. Being able to switch between point view and raster view at different zoom levels would improve usabi…

Yes definitely! Even just having pin vs raster view being tied to number of observations on screen instead of just zoom level would go a long way.. (Though I still think raster view itself has a very long way to go in terms of legibility…)

I tried doing a feature request for a separate Advanced Search page and was told to add my thoughts here, so I’ve posted my feature request below. A separate Advanced Search page would, of course, not have to wait for the Explore page to be rewritten and could be immediately functional for both the …

I’m sure this has come up before and people have requested it, but a search across the forum only led me to finding a request about toggling obscured observations on/off. I’d like to get a feature for the current user that enables them to view their own obscured observations with the correct locati…

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for!

Adding my ‘vote’ for an Endemic filter. For this 44K batch from Geomodel Anomaly update But first I can peel off - Disagreements - Captive - and Introduced.

In any nature walk not able to print a simple thumb image of the various species seen uniquely. So, if I observed 93 butterflies spanning 58 species, I can NOT get a thumb image of unique species seen. A typical butterfly walk for say 4 hours in a butterfly garden. I observed total 93 individual …

Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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thomaseverest June 9, 2025, 2:39pm 374

See this discussion:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/view-true-locations-on-maps-for-observations-with-trusted-hidden-coordinates/2568

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Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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