[image] Rename Location "Accuracy" circle to "Precision" circle But maybe the more typical case for iNat situations is, “I was in this park and so that’s why this pin is in the park, but we did a lot of walking that day, so I’ll just make the circle size a decent chunk of the park.” Is there a…

I hike along a trail. Using a circle for location means most of the designated area is wrong. I wasn’t running up and down the mountain slope, I was walking along the path. A way to mark the location as a particular length of the trail would be closer to accurate / precise / right. Using satellite…

I strongly agree with Paloma and Diana! Using circles to show imprecision when you were following a path is especially a problem if the circle extends outside the park or preserve where the observation was made. You have to narrow the circle to keep the observation associated with the preserve and t…

There was a feature request to allow an Accuracy polygon (which was rejected), plus an open feature request for Accuracy by place . P.S. The answer to the original question is no (at least no at the moment).

i think it would be nice, but very difficult to implement well as iNat isn’t really set up to do much with polygons and such. As such i suspect it won’t happen. It’s pretty hard to map where a trail is if you don’t have a GPS track anyhow. In most places they are hard to see on air photos and meand…

Since we have gained the option to toggle a default map view to satellite, in our (dryish mediterranean) climate the trails are quite obvious. Would be nice to be able to click and drag along the trail to mark This Bit - similar to being able to highight words in text. Would that be a technical po…

From the (rejected) feature request for this: [image] Accuracy polygon Polygons are taxing on our system, and after talking with our developers we won’t be moving forward with this functionality.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but all locations on iNat are based on a set of lat-long coordinates that designate a particular point, even those that are obscured or have a buffer circle indicating the level of precision around them. A segment of trail or a line with start and end points would require mu…

To record a rectangle, you would need two data points and a width or half-width, instead of one data point and a diameter or radius. That’s one additional pair of coords. But I am not expecting it to be a priority for iNat. So I will keep jiggling my location data as needed to fit the sighting with…

It would be nice to designate a narrow line rather than a circle as the area the observation could be fron, but I can understand that iNaturalist probably can’t implement that, at least in the near future. What one can do is put in the comments a note that the observations were near trail X, or alo…

I opened a related feature request as pointed out by @zabdiel with suggestions on how a better accuracy specification could be implemented without having to store additional polygons/lines or spatially processing them when retrieving observations. It wouldn’t address the trail feature but at least t…

Is there a way to indicate start/end of trail on map instead of circle?

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bouteloua February 3, 2020, 8:20pm 7

From the (rejected) feature request for this:

Topic		Replies	Views
Accuracy polygon Feature Requests	8	1151	September 5, 2019
Mark a line on a trail as an option instead of a circle for location Feature Requests	5	828	May 7, 2019
Accuracy by place Feature Requests	5	1506	February 27, 2020
Alarming location accuracy issue General	45	1753	November 16, 2024
Rename Location "Accuracy" circle to "Precision" circle Feature Requests	12	3061	February 2, 2020

Is there a way to indicate start/end of trail on map instead of circle?

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