I’m looking for interesting (but easy) ways to visualise my observations on a map. Eg, to visualise the changes in the distribution of species during different seasons. I’m not the biggest fan of point locations for observations. I’d love it if there were an easy way to plot polygon on a map, with …

Read these two posts and see if one or both are what you’re looking for? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/color-code-the-pins-for-subspecies-when-looking-at-maps-of-species/6580/9 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/use-unique-colors-for-observation-pins-when-searching-for-multiple-species/3238/2

Welcome to the forum, @vojczech !

[image] pisum: are you just connecting the outermost points to create polygon This is all I’m doing. But it is very cumbersome, and not really what I need. My ideal solution would be a heatmap of different layers (with each layer representing whatever species I select)

hmm… if you’re trying to do heatmaps, then you should try the tilesets served up by iNat and GBIF , if you haven’t already. iNaturalist’s tiles are a little bit uglier in most cases (in my opinion), but they can be set to any color using the color parameter. GBIF’s tiles look a little better (in my …

Please pardon my ignorance…I get a “400” error when I click on the GBIF links. I get a parsing error when I click on the api.inaturalist links. Is there something I should be doing to set both of them up before being able to access the links? Thanks in advance

the api.inat.org and api.gbif.org URLs above won’t actually take you anywhere. but they do provide a GIS tool – in this case, ArcGIS Online – the instructions needed to get map tiles from iNat and GBIF. you may have noticed that when you load many online maps, they get rendered a section or a tile …

it occurred to me last night / this morning that i could probably take the results from the UTFGrid tiles that the iNaturalist API serves up and use them to create my own custom observation maps. so when i got some time this evening, i tried to create my own custom map based on UTFGrid data, and it …

ok… i’ve been coding a bit, and i’m at a point of diminishing returns for further coding, i think. i didn’t get to the point of producing a mapping interface, but the code is here ( https://github.com/jumear/stirfry/blob/gh-pages/iNat_UTFgrid_based_custom_density_map.html ), and hopefully it’s relativ…

This is really impressive. Is there a way that non-coders can use this to produce their own maps, without having to manipulate things at the ‘code’ level?

[image] j-k: Is there a way that non-coders can use this to produce their own maps, without having to manipulate things at the ‘code’ level? because maps can be so variable, it would take a lot more code than i’m willing to do to create a proper front-end to allow people to really configure t…

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pisum November 8, 2019, 1:57am 17

in case you haven’t seen the news, they’re now testing a new style of iNat density map. see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/open-test-of-map-tile-improvements/7833.

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Looking for iNaturalist observation map visualisation suggestions

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