When I add in the Android app a prerecorded sound the date, time and location is empty.
The current date and current time are the default and can be added easy but the current location not:
the pointer is standing in (0,0) in the South Atlantic Ocean.
I was never there, I am never there and I expect never to be there.
I think it is more helpfull to check if the gps is working and make the current location the default in the iNaturalist - app. Especially if you record the bird sound, check if it is good enough and make an observation on the current location with the current time. Opening the current location is will be better in more occasions, not only when adding a prerecorded sound.
I think current location is alway better…than the Atlantic Ocean as i used to be on a different continent. Often i tried to upload the same day preventing scrolling a lot of 100kms.
Yes but often on travel i have no idea where i am so i could easily be mistaken 500km if i take the location of the previous day or stop.
But an Interpolation button on the iphone app would also help. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/interpolating-coordinates/5170
At least it makes it easier to identify observations without location. If it defaulted to current location, it would be impossible to know when an observation was really uploaded without a location, and thus harder to correct errors.
if you want to create an observation with a prerecorded sound that defaults to your current location, you could just create a “no media” observation, and then add a sound to it.
i think it’s fair for an observation that begins with a non-geotagged prerecorded file to default to no location because it would be impossible to determine if the file actually was taken recently or if it was just created on / download to your device recently. so there’s no basis for the app to decide whether the observation likely occurred in the current location or not.
tiwane’s workaround works, too, but perhaps it defers the determination of the location a little so that you have to stay in that spot just a little longer to get the location vs if the location is determined as soon as the observation is started.
I’m going to close this. We’re not going to update the current Android app much any longer, the upcoming new app doesn’t default to 0,0. Also, it should no longer be possible to save an observation with the coordinates 0,0, there’s a check for that.
