Platform(s): website Description of need: My request is to make the default radius of “Nearby observations” smaller. 50km away doesn’t seem very “nearby”. Yes, I know you can change it from the default once you get to the Explore page. Link to Nearby observations seen here: [nearby_obs_link] l…

I think the current radius is a good default, especially since many areas of the world are still under-represented and thus the “seen nearby” function would not be as useful if it was narrower.

Since Seen Nearby is triggered by one obs, with just the one ID - I would rather change that than the range.

In most of California, the habitat can change almost completely in just 5 km. 10 km can take you from the mountain tops at 10000 feet elevation to the desert floor at 0 feet elevation. Those two areas have no species in common at all, so it is quite unhelpful to suggest nearby species from 10 km …

I usually change the URL from 50 to 0.5 when I click that link.

[image] tchester: In most of California, the habitat can change almost completely in just 5 km. 10 km can take you from the mountain tops at 10000 feet elevation to the desert floor at 0 feet elevation. Where I live it’s more often change in soil composition than elevation. Also a change base…

You’re referring to computer vision suggestions, and to the way it formerly functioned. It now uses the geomodel. This request is for the link at the bottom of observation pages, it’s not related to computer vision.

50km is a pretty good range for “nearby”. Most species have distributions far greater than that, so within that boundary is perfectly reasonable. If anything it’s actually pretty conservative unless you’re dealing with an endemic species with an extremely small range, and even then you can’t rule …

Maybe I’m using it differently than other people? If I want to know all possible species in the area, we already have that functionality elsewhere. For nearby, I want to look to see if something I’m looking at (my photo or other people’s) has already been observed in the near vicinity. Maybe someone…

Thanks, Tony! I didn’t even know that link was there at the bottom of the observation pages. I had forgotten that the new geomodel was now used, which was a big improvement.

Make "Observations Nearby" circle smaller

Feature Requests

cigazze June 11, 2024, 12:21am 6

Maybe a dynamic circle that’s something like “smallest radius with 100+ observations” or something would make sense. Essentially, the 100 closest observations, but still mappable with a circle.

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Make "Observations Nearby" circle smaller

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