Link to GBIF observations on maps

Feature Requests
1

Platform: website

Description of need:
While dealing with species that are rare in my aerea I sometimes like to activate the GBIF layer. I often wonder what GBIF knows about those observations and would like to jump directly to the specific GBIF-record.

Feature request details:
I would like click on a GBIF-Point (from a page like: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194457465) if there is no iNat record (or if I unchecked the iNat-Layer in the map) and be directed to the exact record on GBIF. (like this one: Occurrence 4130110763 (gbif.org)

2

there may not even be a way to achieve this. i think the GBIF occurrence map layer is visualization only (not designed to be clicked).

3

If it is an iNat record/observation, you can go to that observation’s page, and click on the direct link to GBIF from there.

But I agree that this would likely need some extra work to implement, since the GBIF layer currently isn’t interactive at all (just shows points)

7

Even the maps on the GBIF website are not clickable.

8

Indeed. One can search on the GBIF maps in an aerea but not click on a single button.

10

i think what you’re describing is a different issue than the original thread here. if one of the @forum_moderators sees this, they may want to split this off into its own thing. also, i think the original feature request is something that falls outside the scope of what iNat folks can do anything about. so it might be time to close the thread.

11

I think the initial idea is indeed different. I also think it would be possible to implement. But I also see, that other things might be more important.

12

if the GBIF maps themselves are not clickable, how do you propose that iNat staff make them clickable? seems like something that needs to be done by GBIF staff.

13

They are shown on the inat page. With observation id in GBIF they could be reached with a link.

14

But in most cases, there’s no GBIF ID directly available - there’s just a dot on the map. I suppose it would be possible to calculate a small polygon via a mouse-click on (or very near) the dot and then use the GBIF API to list all occurence records of a given taxon found within that polygon. But this seems a little too niche for the iNat devs to bother with. If I really wanted something like this, I would probably just create my own userscript for it.