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 …

Based on this conversation , can we have a toggle to turn off all observations, similar to the taxon page map? [image]

This is only a very temporary solution though, which only works for one tab until it’s (even accidentally) refreshed, like you said. It’s been almost 7 years since this was initially reported with no resolution, so I’ve opened a new bug report with a proposal that the iNat team could implement with…

As many have already mentioned, using the map view on small screens (e.g. built-in laptop screen) works fine (see first screenshot below), however on larger screens the map itself doesn’t scale vertically and the controls and, more importantly, the list of observations are both centered on the map, …

Oh, and changing that .container size to width: 100%; also improves the grid view, which can show significantly more observations per row, as shown in the before/after screenshots below: [inat-grid-after] [inat-grid-before] As far as I know Bootstrap should already have .container-fluid class…

[image] jeanphilippeb: Suggestion for the fix: always show as separate tiles all the other search results. Display a tile for each taxon level between the species level and the level of the taxon being searched for. For instance, if we search for a family, there could be tiles for the family, a…

[image] jeanphilippeb: It seems that now it works as I have requested, there are tiles for higher rank taxa: No. It is showing tiles for each leaf taxon. The parent taxa of each of the lower taxa are not represented separately.

Here’s a quote of the relevant part of my comment here that @jeanphilippeb linked to. On the Explore page, there is a tab that lets you see the number of species for an area and each species has a total number as well. I’m not opposed to there being a species tab like this that ignores subspecies …

[image] keirmorse: the only way to get a good idea of what taxa are in a particular area with a large number of observations is to do a data export To see counts of infrataxa without doing a data export, you can use https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_observations_taxonomy . For example: h…

I think the simplest solution to this would be making it so that hrank=subspecies works. Currently this link only shows species level which doesn’t make sense.

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jeanphilippeb January 29, 2026, 6:56am 391

As explained here by @keirmorse, suggestion to add tiles for subspecies in the view “Species” of the Explore page.

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Ideas for a revamped Explore/Observations Search Page

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