Hi, I just created a place because in a couple of months we will be doing a bioblitz there and we are starting to prepare for it. However when I am on Explore page and select my place in the filters no observations show up there. So far there’s only one observation there, but it’s definitely there,…

The accuracy of the bat observation surpasses the place borders and the other two observations were made out of that place.

I am in a similar situation and am about to create a location myself, so I’m interested in the answer here. Did you create the observation before or after the location? It’s a guess, but maybe if the observation came first, it’s never been tagged against the new location? I hope not as it would b…

[image] GrantC: I’ve lots of existing observations I want to fall into my future location! They will be there, don’t worry! It’s fabulous how they appear as a group once you have the Place to collect them. But as said above, the accuracy circle must be small enough, and the co-ordinates accur…

Now I get it, thank you. The bat is a threatened species so the observer probably wanted the location to be obscured.

The location is not really obscured… try to contact him and ask.

what I did when I created a place, to counter this issue, was to make the place a bit bigger than the area I wanted to look at – 50 to 100 meters in each direction, so that observations from the edges would be included.

I was wondering about that. With small places a significant percentage of observations could have part of the accuracy circle outside the place. I have some observations which are in a strip of scrub along one edge of a local park*. I know they were observed in the park but the accuracy circles prob…

I have to give a lot of my obs accurcy circles of 2m for that reason, monitoring a particular habitat quite different from the adjoining, ie different land management. I don’t feel that the difference between 2m and, say, 10m, is significant enough to damage anyone’s research into species distribut…

If only there was a filter that allows to view the observations in a particular area even if only the center of the obs accuracy circle is in it…

I agree. It currently excludes observations if there is a chance they are not in the place, but it would be so helpful for bioblitzes if observations were included if there is the possibility they are within the place… in other words, include observations if the accuracy circle or obscuration square…

Manually created place doesn't show observations

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draposo79 January 29, 2020, 9:14am 4

The accuracy circle must be contained by the place borders. Then the observation will show on the places list.

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Manually created place doesn't show observations

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