The help page “ What is geoprivacy? What does it mean for an observation to be obscured? : iNaturalist Help ” explains what is the “public positional accuracy” for “Obscured” observations (i.e. random pinpoint inside a 0.2° box, roughly) Meanwhile, the help page " What is the Data Quality Assessment …

Agreed. The one time things get dicey is if an observation is both obscured and has a huge accuracy bubble. For example, a land animal might have a point dropped in the middle of a huge sea with a big accuracy bubble encompassing the whole seashore around it because the observer knows they saw it so…

Is downvoting the DQA "location accurate" appropriate for Obscured observations?

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DianaStuder August 29, 2026, 1:42pm 21

But. You have NO obs at all
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=geoltel&verifiable=any

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Is downvoting the DQA "location accurate" appropriate for Obscured observations?

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