Hi there! I’m a software engineer with a love of nature, and I’m here to share a tool I’ve been working on, originally started for my own ID practice over the winter months. I’m happy to say it’s finally in a state where I’m looking for feedback from folks who would potentially be interested in us…

For sure, there is also the blind=true option: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=Aves&place_id=80627&blind=true But I often find these ways too tricky or, for the blind=true option, not immediate to see the “correct” answer. And most important, if you add an ID on iNat, …

Thanks so much for the feedback, those are some really good points and ideas! I originally wanted the date filter to be less restrictive, but I realized that the API only lets you query with a single start and end date, so disregarding the year it would be a bit more complicated coding-wise (but is…

Thanks for the feedback! I did have to implement throttling on the text boxes so as to not ping the iNat API too much and get rate limited (at that point all requests just error for a bit until it resets), but I’ll be experimenting with the throttling amount to see if I can lower it without going ov…

I appreciate the feedback, this tool is definitely more oriented towards newbies, I’m relatively new to iNaturalist myself and I found myself nervous to make incorrect identifications that someone would have to later go fix, so I wanted to work on a way to quiz myself with confirmed research-grade o…

You can actually change the location searched by moving/zooming the map around (and the radius will move with it), and there is a location autocomplete that can re-center the map on a given location, but I will need to indicate that somewhere because it definitely isn’t clear, thank you for taking a…

[image] fornaeffe: without messying iNat with IDs of which I am not sure I might put in 3 IDs - then when I have settled on The One, I will go back and delete the others. My learning curve is messy for other identifiers, and the observer. (I won’t delete a previous ID if there has been discus…

Filter by location - but I want to set that myself. I have location switched off.

Love it. Will use it when I’m about to extend my taxa list for IDs. To those who think we should rather ID in iNat: I will use it when I am still unsure about my knowledge of a taxon. I think this tool will actually make it quicker to gain confidence, so it will help me ID sooner than without it.

I largely agree on the importance of “real” IDing, but with two caveats: I can see this as quite valuable for a classroom/training exercise for very new iNatters to learn how the system works and gain confidence. I think a lot of folks never start IDing because they are so worried about being wron…

[image] cthawley: I think a lot of folks never start IDing because they are so worried about being wrong. A tool like this could help them gain confidence and demystify the ID process and increase the number of IDers in the long run. the iNaturalist workflow works by allowing identifiers to i…

iDentifi: An Identification Practice Tool Using the iNat API

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iDentifi: An Identification Practice Tool Using the iNat API

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