Is there a place where I can go to get a list of iNaturalist place_ids?

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@brucehs

is there a way to query whether iNaturalist has any observations for a taxon at a place_id

i think i would do an observation search query to see if i can find any observations for the taxon and place, returning only the observation ID and only 1 observation per page. so if you get an empty result set, there aren’t any observations for the taxon in the place. otherwise, you’ll get just one ID back in the result set.

for example: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations?place_id=123&taxon_id=3&page=1&per_page=1&order=desc&order_by=created_at&only_id=true