iNaturalist Updates for March 2021

[tiwane]

Here’s a list of iNat updates that were released in March of 2021. Thank you, @forum_moderators, for keeping track of these!

General

• Announced AWS Open Data Program - if you opt to license your photos with a Creative Commons license, your photos can be more easily used for research and other purposes as well as save iNaturalist money on image hosting
• Launched iNaturalist Greece, supported by iSea, as part of the iNaturalist Network—localized websites supported by local institutions that promote local use and facilitate the use of data from iNaturalist to benefit local biodiversity (read blog post)
• Removed other computer vision species suggestions when one of them is “human (Homo sapiens)”
• Improved time zone handling
• Testing v2 of the API - you can help
• Many additional translations throughout the websites and apps - you can help

Website

• Like Android, now restricting computer vision suggestions to those “seen nearby” by default, with an sticky option to show suggestions not seen nearby too
• Improved Y axis number formatting for graphs of observations on taxon pages
• Translated country names are now searchable
• User profiles now show which network site a person is affiliated with (e.g. iNaturalist, iNaturalist NZ, ArgentiNat)
• Better ranking to popular projects in header search results
• Fixed a bug affecting sorting by number of faves
• Projects you admin (e.g. here) are now sorted alphabetically by title
• Added support for without_taxon_id parameter in exports
• Compare tool now correctly displays obscured locations as circles
• Improvements to lazy-load on observation detail page

Android

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• Follow/Unfollow an observation
• Swapped the order of some buttons on the add observation/add media panel
• View metadata for an observation, including observation ID, UIUD, and URL
• User’s own IDs are now properly displayed

Seek

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• Released March Challenge, sponsored by National Geographic
• Added background uploader, which allows you to use Seek while uploading an observation to iNaturalist.

iNat Blog

• March 3rd: A Bat and a Bat Fly Seen in Kenya
• March 9th: A Macro Diver in Australia Documents Gobbleguts Mouthbrooding
• March 11th: Identifier Profile: @naufalurfi
• March 16th: In Benin, an African Naturalist Records an Amazing Plant
• March 24th: We want you to license your iNaturalist photos before April 15th!
• March 24th: A Guatemalan Red-rump Tarantula Makes a House Visit
• March 28th: Welcome, iNaturalist Greece! Καλωσόρισες iNaturalist Greece!
• March 30th: A South African Botanist Photographs a Leaping Dolphin

For even more bug fixes and updates, check out iNaturalist on github and see previous monthly updates.

[zdanko]

What about the addition of iNaturalist Luxembourg?

[jdmore]

That wasn’t quite complete when we cut off the list for March, so it will be part of the April updates. Welcome Luxembourg!

[nyoni-pete]

Well done, it’s good to see that iNat is so active.

[kildor]

But what’s about dozens of identical “City Nature Chall…” projects without any possibility to view whole title?

[tiwane]

Can you please provide some examples and a screenshot? Specifics are really important.

[tiwane]

Ah, do you mean this? The monthly update post only covers announcements, improvements, features, bug fixes, etc that have been implemented (or need public feedback) during the month in question. It doesn’t cover anything else.

[ahospers]

@tiwane

• Projects you admin (e.g. here ) are now sorted alphabetically by title

What was the original sorting routine? Recently used would be the most convenient i think but you can change the title

A list with Control-F search capability is engough. but to be honest projects sometimes just do not show up (Hoogkerk Bangeweer Suikerunie) in the iphone app

[fffffffff]

Date created. You can answer to the topic about it with your idea and read other proposals there.