In my experience, it’s somewhat rare for staff to give overtly negative responses on things, and I interpret a merely lukewarm response as essentially negative (i.e. “we won’t prevent this from happening, but the number of things higher on the priority list is so big, it effectively isn’t going to happen”). Maybe you read these differently, but I think these comments are pushing things in the direction of unlikely to implement:
“positioning_method and positioning_device were fields that we added really early on and never ended up using much because they weren’t useful to anyone”
“there’s usually no way for us to know where those coordinates came from”
And this is from github:
In sum, I personally believe that iNat is not interested in exploring how to better capture the method used for setting either the GPS coordinates or the locality notes.
I’m not trying to squash dreams, I just don’t want people to get their hopes up. 