Many observations are missing from explorer view

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I got a real scare tonight. Using the app on iOS, I looked at the map of an area where I observe frequently. I saw only four of my observations. This kind of freaked me out.

So I went to the browser view in Safari on my iPad. Same thing happened. Really freaked out now.

Went to Safari on my MacBook and got the same result. I got really nervous about my hundreds of observations…

So I did an experiment on my Mac.

If I search my observations for nine-banded armadillos, I get two hits from 2014 using this UR:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=47075&user_id=jbecky&verifiable=any

If I search my observations for cardinals, I get 2 hits, one in 2014 and one in 2019, using this URL:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=9080&user_id=jbecky&verifiable=any

But if I search the street where the armadillos and cardinals were found (Vaquero Cv, Austin, TX):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=30.42047080438499&nelng=-97.78343928500692&place_id=any&swlat=30.415382166630124&swlng=-97.79359305571563&user_id=jbecky&verifiable=any

I get four hits, none of which is an armadillo or a cardinal. All are in 2019 although I have several years of observations on this street.

This is the same result I get if I just explore my observations using the map to zoom in on that street and if I use the iOS app.

I used to be able to see all of my observations. What is going on?

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P.S. I get the same result using Chrome on my MacBook.

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your armadillo and cardinal observations are obscured. make sure you’re actually logged in when you’re querying for your obscured observations?

(when i query for my own obscured observations in specific locations, the observations do get pulled back, although they don’t always show up well on the map. maybe that’s the issue?)

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yeah, obscured observations often won’t show up as your real location, even when logged in, depending on what page you are looking at. I suspect it’s computationally intensive to query for each map or search page to see which observations one does or doesn’t have access to. I think such has been requested in Google Groups, though.

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well, i mean they don’t always show up on the map, even as obscured circle points – at least they didn’t for me this morning.

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