Anyone know if there is a way to allow GPS Coords when utilizing the Explore tab? When working as an ecologist, there are often times we only have the GPS of a particular location but unfortunately I haven’t found a way to search location by this. Thank you!

Welcome to the iNatForum! The Explore tab lets you draw boundaries, either rectangular or circular, around an area. If you’re not sure where on a map a particular set of coordinates are, you can use the following two links (for a portion of Central Park, in New York City) and replace the coordinat…

If I’m understanding your use case, you have a GPS location and you would like to explore the observations at that location. As far as I know, the only way to do that is to construct the URL manually, as described above. Fwiw, I have the same use case. I often have a GPS location on the clipboard. …

That is awesome, especially the circular Explore spot! Thanks, @larry216 !

You don’t even need to specify a radius, it will default to 10, so https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=40.78094676128634&lng=-73.96688431611243 is the same as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=40.78094676128634&lng=-73.96688431611243&radius=10

Looking up locations by GPS Coords

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Looking up locations by GPS Coords

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