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. …

Map: Mauritius should not overlap La Réunion

Bug Reports

dianastuder November 25, 2019, 8:38pm 7

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

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Map: Mauritius should not overlap La Réunion

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