Include personal species guess in data export

[markus_dumke]

When exporting my own observations how can I include my species guess as a column?

Currently, the export function seems to only support the community taxon in the export list. But maybe I am missing a function to include the user taxon? Let me know if this is possible.

Why is this relevant?

I want to see, what is my current taxon guess for the observations. Often I want to have look, where did I see species X, but cannot find the observation, because the community taxon might be different, but I remember the observation as “X”.

When having thousands of observations, there will be a few percent where others add incorrect IDs to my observations. It would be really helpful to have my taxon guess in the export in these cases to quickly fix the data.

Also, I can have a look at my observations where my taxon guess differs from the community taxon and maybe correct some identifications, increasing the data quality.

[DianaStuder]

Will the new Disagreements filter help ?

[pisum]

@markus_dumke

When exporting my own observations how can I include my species guess as a column?

species_guess is an actual field that you can include when exporting your observations. it’s not reliable in every case, but it should generally give you an idea of what your identification is on your own observations.

@markus_dumke

Often I want to have look, where did I see species X, but cannot find the observation, because the community taxon might be different, but I remember the observation as “X”.

if you don’t actually need the data exported, then on your own observations…

if you want to see where anyone identified something as X, then you can use:

• https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?user_id=markus_dumke&ident_taxon_id=[numeric id of X]

if you want to see where you identified something as X, you have to search identifications (not observations):

• https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=markus_dumke&for=self&taxon_id=[numeric id of X]
• https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_identifications?per_page=200&own_observation=true&user_id=markus_dumke&taxon_id=[numeric id of X]
  • this latter option has more additional filter parameters available, such as place_id, observation_taxon_id, without_taxon_id, without_observation_taxon_id, etc.

and here’s another thing that may be useful, particularly if you’re not dealing with a specific taxon X: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/reviewing-multiple-older-entries-quickly-to-see-if-they-are-waiting-to-be-corrected-or-refined-to-ssp-or-var/69039/5
…

if species_guess doesn’t work for your use case, and if you actually need the data in, say, a CSV file, then i think the only way right now to get this done with standard user interfaces is by including your observations in a traditional project, making yourself a curator for the project, and then exporting the observations from the project page. that will generate a CSV export that includes fields like curator_taxon_id, etc.

otherwise, without resorting to a using traditional project, you’d have to extract the data via the API, and parse / lay out the data however you like it.

[markus_dumke]

Thank you for the link. Can you explain, what it does? It does not show any observations for me.

[markus_dumke]

Thank you very much, this is very useful to know, especially the search parameters on identifications and the curator_id field. I think using the API is probably the best way for me to proceed as I want to use the data outside of iNaturalist. I will have a look into the documentation how to use it.

[DianaStuder]

This URL with these filters? Shows 53 obs for me now. Needs ID - filter for Disagreements - and your user name. Maybe you need to click Reviewed as well, to see them?

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?user_id=markus_dumke&disagreements=true&place_id=any