Issue/question 1: Recently I noticed a change where anytime I click on Explore, it defaults to my home state (Florida) rather than defaulting to “World” as it always had in the past. I never changed any settings that I am aware of. This appears to be a system change that I was not aware of, and d…

[image] kcthetc1: defaults to my home state (Florida) This sounds like your account settings got changed. [Screenshot 2025-06-20 at 12.48.25 PM] [image] kcthetc1: I tried to search Turkey https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/searching-turkey-or-turkiye-as-location-resaults-in-showing-obs…

The Explore interface location box does sometimes return odd results and I think it is indeed a Google search, and thus beyond iNat’s control. I was able to verify that searching for Turkey in that box behaves as you indicated. However, searching for Turkey in iNat search bar in the upper left will …

Okay, yes my location default was set at Florida under my settings, but I never asked for that or made any changes myself. ??? I now changed that to having nothing in that box. I tried World, but it didn’t seem to offer that as option. It did not appear to fix the “Turkey” problem, however it did gi…

I see I am not the only one. All I know is that I was doing searches in Turkey a lot from mid April through the end of May, and never had this problem. I haven’t searched it in June until today, so apparently this issue developed at least a couple of weeks ago, but not much earlier than that.

Yes, thanks, that does work perfect, and gives an accurate (not a simple rectangle) boundary. However, that now leaves me (and anyone else), having to make two additional and unwanted steps every time I search there. Never had this problem before.

Thanks for getting my “fix” started. Very disconcerting how account changes apear tp occur (on any platform) without the “owner” (being aware of) making the change themselves.

[image] kcthetc1: All I know is that I was doing searches in Turkey a lot from mid April through the end of May, and never had this problem. Were you always using Explore? Place search in Identity does work differently, using the iNat defined places rather than Google.

To keep things tidier, I’m going to close this topic. For issue 1: if anyone can reproduce having their default search place set for them without choosing it, please file a bug report. Without steps to reproduce the problem, there really isn’t any way to investigate a fix, sorry. For issue 2: plea…

iNat changes? Explore default, and new location search method?

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iNat changes? Explore default, and new location search method?

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