When searching for obseravtions at “Mauritius” or at “Maurice”, observations from La Réunion should not be included. [image] [image]

Do the search with the filters. Location search might result in a square boundary box, whereas places will return you the true observations within a defined area. A recurring issue, I hope the next major relaunch of the site will address the distinction of those two in a more easy to approach way. …

Even if I search for “Mauritius” it does a search for the place rather than a square bounding box. Your search looks like it has a bounding box rather than the place. If I search your observations from explore and enter “Mauritius” in the location this is what I get: https://www.inaturalist.org/ob…

If I search for the “Location” (“Emplacement” in French) “Mauritius”, it does a search within a square, with this URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=-18.7763&nelng=59.58439999999996&place_id=any&subview=table&swlat=-21.637&swlng=55.766599999999926&user_id=jeanphilippeb and this sq…

This is not the only problem with bound aries. I live in Thailand, and have never been to Myanmar, but, when I search for Myanmar observations for Cercopoidea (Hemiptera), about 50 of mine come up!

[image] jeanphilippeb: If I search for the “Location” (“Emplacement” in French) “Mauritius”, it does a search within a square Weird. That’s exactly what I did too but with a different result. Maybe the language makes a difference. [image] jeanphilippeb: this square overlaps the North-Est…

I had a similar problem with Cape Town - and was told to skip the broken Location, and go to Filter by Place. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/searching-for-cape-town-shows-cape-town-marine/8164/10

[image] DianaStuder: I had a similar problem with Cape Town - and was told to skip the broken Location To be clear, Location is not “broken,” it’s working as designed. Using Location, you should get a result pretty much anywhere in the world because we search Google Maps, whereas the Places s…

But could you make the square around Mauritius a bit smaller? I undestand that it is not a software bug, but there is a data bug in the definition of the square: [image] Compare with the much smaller area around La Réunion, it does not include Mauritius: [image] I let open the question to…

[image] jeanphilippeb: But could you make the square around Mauritius a bit smaller? I suspect that the size of the square is controlled by the zoom level that google maps gives when you search for that place on google maps and isn’t actually set by iNaturalist. [image] jeanphilippeb: Co…

I created this place for the Rodrigues island: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/rodrigues-mu To select it, you need to type in “Rodrigues, MU” (neither “Rodrigues”, “Rodrigues island”, “Rodrigues, Mauritius”, “Rodrigues, Maurice” enable to get it), which is not intuitive: [image]

I suggest you to ask a software developper to analyze why typing in “Mauritius” or “Maurice” in the location control box gives an entry that corresponds to a bounding box, instead of this iNaturalist place: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/mauritius If this is not the expected behavior, as you i…

Map: Mauritius should not overlap La Réunion

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Linking of Google locations and iNat places General question	7	969	November 29, 2019
Countries become rectangular when using the Location bar in Explore General	34	2318	April 21, 2021
Searching for observations in a city returns observations for a specific land feature within the city General web	48	1686	October 10, 2023
Inaccurate boundary for Myanmar Bug Reports	7	1023	January 22, 2020
Incorrect location boundaries General	20	549	September 2, 2025

Map: Mauritius should not overlap La Réunion

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