Something I have come across a lot in Brazil is locations which are clearly inaccurate, presumably because the observer searched for the name of the municipality, and usually this maps to the centre of the relevant town. Often, the accuracy circle does not include suitable habitat for, for example, …

Thanks, Jane! I have opened a feature request, so we can close this topic and focus discussion there: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/record-positioning-method-for-coordinates-and-make-it-available-in-observations/

Make it easier to distinguish how coordinates were created

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jwidness April 18, 2022, 2:56pm 4

There is already some code for this, but I don’t think it’s been updated in a long time and it might be something the developers don’t want to work on.

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Record positioning method for coordinates and make it available in observations

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Make it easier to distinguish how coordinates were created

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