Platform: Web
App version number, if a mobile app issue:
Browser, if a website issue: Chrome
URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/288496747
Screenshots of what you are seeing:
Description of problem:
Step 1: Submit observation in singapore
Step 2: Observe that it is recorded in butterflies of malaysia
Step 3: create ticket in forum
similar observation:
obscured location is soundly in Malaysia
Are you sure? Because… it quite literally says “Singapore”
I notice that Butterfly Hill on Pulau Ubin is 5km south of that location. How was that observation created?
I typed out the location in the search box, an automated location was generated as “Pulau Ubin butterfly hill”.
I selected it haha
As Vireya has shown you – your location for that obs is far from the island, and is on the Malaysian side. Move the pin to where you have it on your last map.
Human error, not a bug :~)
The point is that the text written as the location and the spot on the map are independent. It is up to the human to ensure that the spot on the map is correct, no matter what the typed location says.
No need to be rude to people who are trying to assist you.
@common_posy - @DianaStuder and @Vireya are correct here, in that the locality note on the observation (“Pulau Ubin, Butterfly Hill, Singapore”), is not necessarily related to the coordinates on the map, nor are they necessarily related to the Encompassing Places shown when you click on Details:
The locality note either comes from what you typed in, or it’s derived from the map provider (see this FAQ). The Encompassing Places are derived solely from the coordinates of the observation and the accuracy circle around those coordinates (see this FAQ).
The Butterflies of Malaysia project is using the Encompassing Places list you see there. If you move the coordinates of the observation to Pulau Ubin, the observation will no longer be in the Butterflies of Malaysia project.
That’s the thing right?
All I did was search it on Google as I’ve done on one of my 2, new fake observations?
It is correct? What I suspect is that one of the species is marked as vulnerable which changed my map settings from open to obscured automatically. And then back due to the ID change.
Why should I change something I did not even commit a mistake on?
Admittedly this is very easy to fix, I can change the location again as everyone suggested.
But this should not be the case ever.
From my comments you can tell? I didn’t even know you can name A location anywhere on earth as Vancouver, Canada. Which is even more telling that I did not purposely choose some odd location north of where my location was at? Even the spelling of “note” I put was a perfect copy paste from Google.
Since everyone thinks this isn’t a bug and I purposefully placed it in the wrong location? Then so be it! LOL
What do you even mean that it is in Vietnam?
Now you are just disagreeing to be disliked.
I mean it’s within the boundary used by the project.
Yea sure, whatever helps you sleep at night.
Umm ok then?
If it helps, there is a chance it was a mistake on the project’s part
