Platform: Website Browser: Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: NA Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/ ): Not really needed: just a blank page with " 504 Gate…

In short, this place contains too many observations. We need to improve the warning and error messages for clarity in these cases. [image] lehacarpenter: Note: There is nothing special about my polygon. It has a name, and the polygon itself, and that’s all. Although this polygon’s area is un…

I tried using your file to create a place and it timed out as you said. The kml file itself opened in Google Earth just fine. Only thing I can think of is that it’s a very complex shape.

Thank you so much, Carrie! I suspected it had too many vectors, but did not even think about all of the observations that it would include. I had two reasons for trying to create it. The first was my own reason of wanting to use it to subtract all of those marine observations (in a project) from th…

@carrieseltzer Did you have a chance to think about how this should be done? Thank you so much for any ideas! :pray: Leha

there are a lot of places created to represent various ecoregions, including in California. you could look through them to see if any of them might suit your needs: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/search?utf8=✓&q=ecoregion&commit=Search .

[image] lehacarpenter: The first was my own reason of wanting to use it to subtract all of those marine observations (in a project) from the one other place I had created, which was meant to capture only the observations from northern California forests of coastal influence I found the Flora …

It was just about getting a sense of how the coastal forests are doing, now and in the future. How many species do we have in observations today? Which ones; and which are the most and least observed (realizing that many of the “least observed” were probably misidentified)? Also, if someone were to …

iNat times out when trying to load place polygon: 504 Gateway Time-out

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iNat times out when trying to load place polygon: 504 Gateway Time-out

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