Is iNat App GPS getting less accurate?

I moved the above posts from here to a new topic. I’ll also note that the original post in the thread where this conversation originated is about the device’s camera app’s accuracy, not the accuracy recorded in iNat.

I personally haven’t noticed any issues with GPS accuracy in the app over the past few years, aside from some issues we had with iNat Next months ago during pre-alpha testing.

Keep in mind that the iNat app doesn’t have anything to do directly with GPS accuracy, that comes from your device and is usually due to local conditions. If there are issues getting accurate GPS coordinates within the iNat app, they’re likely due to the app not continuing to ask the device for more and more accurate locations. Currently iNat Next will stop asking for a location once the accuracy radius is below 10m.

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