Local national monument not showing up in Location search?

[kschnei]

Hi all - when I try to limit a search to observations within the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California, it doesn’t seem to “find” that locaton or have a polygon that delimits the monument? Or is the search just not working today for some reason? Thanks! Ken

[gatorhawk]

I’m seeing it without issues. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=146031&subview=map

[Naturephotosuze]

That works but you can also see much more of the data by searching for Carrizo Plain by place:

https://www.inaturalist.org/places/carrizo-plain-national-monument

[kschnei]

This is odd - when I go to “explore” and type in Carrizo in the Location Window, it still doesn’t pull up the national monument as a location. I’m attaching a screenshot.

[anneclewis]

I noticed that places don’t always populate the Location search box. For example, when I search Badlands National Park in Location it comes up with a square rather than the Park boundaries.

However, I can look at the Places of Interest on the map and BNP is clearly there as a Standard Place. And when you click on it, the park boundaries load.

[Naturephotosuze]

I agree that it doesn’t work as a location. I gave up on that and just searched for it using the place box and that’s what I sent in my last response. There seem to be quite a few locations that you can’t find in location but can find in place.

[kschnei]

Thanks all! When I look for Carrizo Plain in the Place box, it comes up with about 4-5 “places” with that name - each of which have somewhat different numbers of observations (ranging from about 700-1100)! Did multiple folks draw different polygons?

Also, what does “embed place widget” do?

[tiwane]

@kschnei

Did multiple folks draw different polygons?

Yes, if you go to the place page and scroll down you can see who created the place (if their account has not been deleted). Looks like some were imported by iNat a long time ago, when they say “Source: Merced County GIS Information Portal”

[arboretum_amy]

I find Explore often fails to pull up places, whereas I have better luck on the Identity page. Sometimes I get the place ID out of the Identity URL and move it to the Explore URL.

[tiwane]

Identify only uses iNaturalist places, it doesn’t draw from Google Maps.