Today’s 2 random examples. The better one. Location accuracy 244m https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287542477 When I ID it displays on the map, where it is, within a green shaded circle. But. Location accuracy 2kms https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/275802264 When I ID it displays on…

I do work from Identify. Now I realise my problem is with - Location Accuracy Not Recorded. @tiwane Displaying the Accuracy in metres or kilometres is good. But if Not Recorded - that should also be displayed. Which would also help where I battle to convince an observer that (hidden) information is…

[image] DianaStuder: But if Not Recorded - that should also be displayed. I wouldn’t be against it, but also, if it’s not there then it means there’s no accuracy radius recorded.

Has taken me years to learn that my first impression - this obs is just there where the dot is - is flat out wrong.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=YourUserNameHere&verifiable=any&acc=false If / when you use this link, remember to add your user name - via URL or filter.

Oh my! Why do I have over 3,500 with accuracy not recorded?!?! Quite frankly, I don’t want to go through each of these to add accuracy information, but I would be interested in figuring out why iNaturalist isn’t adding this from my cellphone submissions. Any idea?

If you read thru the copypasta comment from TR above - he understands how iNat works. I parrot what I find across iNat obs and here in the Forum. I know my hiking companions - who use cellphones and add to iNat as they go - sometimes get slightly weird locations, when I know they were not There The…

As far as I can tell all of mine are from cellphone submissions, and I have mostly been in areas with good reception (UK, northern Ohio, Tampa Florida, Tucson Arizona). I am confident that the vast majority of those 3,500+ are extremely accurate, but that doesn’t explain why my submissions don’t ent…

[image] DianaStuder: please note: the app should record your locality accuracy automatically, if you take the photographs with the app. It wont if you add the photographs afterwards, in which case it needs to be manually inserted can that apply to your workflow ? Despite the visuals - that is…

2 long earlier threads https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/missing-location-accuracy-data/38360 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/having-an-accuracy-radius-on-your-location-can-be-important-to-some-data-users/55283/

Hmmm, that is likely the problem. I usually take lots of photos with my Camera app, and then go back to add them as observations later.

Location accuracy when IDing

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Location accuracy when IDing

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