# Indicate overlapping observations for map pins **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Tags:** web, android-app, mobile-app\ **Created:** [November 28, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/indicate-overlapping-observations-for-map-pins/18406 "2020-11-28T13:31:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/indicate-overlapping-observations-for-map-pins/18406/10 "2024-08-12T04:02:40Z")
> [@jwidness](#): > > Cragislist does something sort of like this, splitting out into smaller groups as you zoom in. it looks like [ArcGIS Living Atlas](https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/announcements/inaturalist-living-atlas-beta-release/) has ingested a portion of the monthly iNat AWS Open Data Set into [one of their layers](https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=99e3e9ccfaec422db6d4266569aa19d7). at lower zoom levels, the layer does some hex binning to present data in a way sort of similar to the Craigslist example here. you could also probably [query observation data from the layer](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-a-live-map-service-for-arcmap-and-or-google-earth-with-inat-data-and-links/1512/7), although since it’s based on the AWS Open Data Set, it has all the [limitations of that dataset](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/getting-the-inaturalist-aws-open-data-metadata-files-and-working-with-them-in-a-database/22135). i don’t think this directly addresses the feature request, and i personally wouldn’t advocate for this kind of visualization over iNat’s current map visualizations, but i thought it was interesting, if only as a curisoity. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/indicate-overlapping-observations-for-map-pins/18406)._