I have no complaints about this situation. On the contrary, it is extremely logical in terms of where the inat was founded. However, whenever I tag those who id’ed a species the most, top identifier, I usually get the response “I only know US plants etc”. Is there a lack of advertising and promoti…

If you filter for a location you can get the top identifier for a region [Screenshot 2025-04-15 at 13-11-19 Broomrape Family (Family Orobanchaceae)] vs [Screenshot 2025-04-15 at 13-10-54 Broomrape Family (Family Orobanchaceae)] and you can have it permanently set to a location through your sett…

It seems to me that the title of this post: Maybe User Population Too US Based? Is different from the subject that most of the replies above are addressing: Maybe IDer Expertise Too US Based? I do have some comments that address the title of the post. Specifically: [image] salix-babylonica: I…

[image] salix-babylonica: Can’t such promotion or local campaigns or cooperation projects with local authorities be considered? Maybe a little push is necessary in the non-Western countries. Do you have City Nature Challenge projects to support and promote in Turkiye? Just one https://www.i…

The data doesn’t seem to support this statement. Currently there are 93 million plant observations from 172 k species compared to 123 million animal observations from 312 k species. Moreover, there are 238 k plant identifiers (about 0.002 identifiers per observation) vs. 317 k animal identifiers (a…

I know almost nothing about the different versions within the iNat network around the globe, such as iNat UK or iNat Australia, but do they have local affiliations/cooperators that the US iNat does not have? Does Turkiye have such an arrangement or are all records from that country included in the …

[image] salix-babylonica: Is there a lack of advertising and promotion outside the US? How did you find iNat?

I’m from Egypt and found iNat through Egyptian naturalists. The user population is much smaller so that means we have much less observations and species distributions but it also seems to be much more dedicated — I tend to get identifications faster from there than when visiting the US. Same in the …

not more than kingdom animalia, the iconic taxa are not of equal rank

Yes but prolific identifiers, at specially at a species level usually restrict themselves to one iconic taxa unless they are identifying unkowns. I don’t know any animalia identifiers who do both birds and fish or any other crossing, I am sure those people exist just very few cross lines. There’s …

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dgwdoesthings April 15, 2025, 10:34pm 15

miswording on my part, of the “iconic taxa” the kingdom plantae is the most observed
most of animalia observation are birds and arachnids

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