Hello iNaturalist community! :waving_hand: I’m excited to share a tool I’ve developed to help naturalists analyze and visualize iNaturalist observations using geographic information systems. :round_pushpin: What is this plugin? iNaturalist Import is a free plugin for QGIS (a professional mapping …

I should actually have thought of that :thinking: . Really great plugin and perfect for a project I’ve got going at the moment :slightly_smiling_face: , a really big thank you. EDIT: I’ve been playing with it for a while and I can confirm, it’s not just perfect, it’s nothing short of miraculous!! T…

Thanks, the circle is catching the correct observations now :+1:

It’s true that an area selection by irregular polygon would be nice… We’ll see in a future version.

It’s a bit of my fault because I did not communicate on the plugin I developed a year ago but there is already a QGIS plugin doing some of the functionality you have developed, only the filters needed to be implemented to be similar to yours (and some minor changes as well). It would have been a go…

Cool idea :-) Unfortunately, this plugin does not appear in my list of available plugins on QGIS :-( I am on Linux Mint 21 with QGIS 3.22.4. I see there is a newer version (3.44) which I could download manually if required as it is not in my repositories. I see version 4.0 will be released short…

Hi, I’m using QGIS on a Mac, not sure if that makes a difference, but I pasted the lines in the python console in QGIS and I get an error message (screenshot), suggestions? thx [Screenshot 2026-01-25 at 14.43.06]

On Mac, pyinaturalist must be installed in QGIS’s bundled Python environment, not the system or Homebrew Python. Step 1 – Locate QGIS Python Check /Applications for your QGIS app (e.g., QGIS.app or QGIS-LTR.app). The correct Python path is typically: /Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/py…

Good evening, jgrillot. We could chat in French, since we’re neighbors. Initially, I discovered your plugin and used it. I was frustrated by the inability to filter the inputs, and my two naturalist friends had the same reaction. Since I had already written a couple of small things in Python, I deci…

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ovidionasone January 25, 2026, 7:23pm 22

Hello, sorry if I might have missed how to do this, but I keep getting this error (attached screenshot). Not sure how to open the ‘OSGeo4W Shell’.

Help appreciated, thx

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