Location error doesn’t seem fixable

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Platform : iphone12

App version number: 3.0.6 buikd610

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Description of problem

I happened to go back and look at a observation and noticed that it was in the wrong place(even though it should have been geotagged by iPhone) and I went and manually repositioned it to where it was found. Went back to the list of all observations and it still looked correct it said it was listed in a park where it was found. Pulled down to refresh and it showed it being in a random place 15 miles west.

I have tried manually repositioning this location 5 times now and each time after refresh it has the location as a random different location very far away, no repeats on the new random location and I’ve never been to any of these spots where the location had been positioned.

I screen shot the current configuration which has a very inaccurate location.

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Hi, welcome to the Forum!

This subspecies of turtle is rated as Vulnerable, and its location is therefore automatically obscured (randomized) so as to protect it from poachers.

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This page explains some of the obscuring process on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/geoprivacy

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(seems like the notes from trh_blue and cthawley are the solutions for this bug report. probably should close out this thread.)

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Not sure there’s a solution to this one yet, but there is another bug report, so I’ll close this one and we can continue the discussion in one place: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/gps-coordinates-do-not-pull-up-correctly-on-map-in-ios-app-v-3/16943/21 @brandeninthemarigny you might like to “Watch” that topic to get updates on its status. Thanks!