# Modifying early rough place boundary on large area

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**Created:** [March 11, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/modifying-early-rough-place-boundary-on-large-area/49516 "2024-03-11T12:43:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/modifying-early-rough-place-boundary-on-large-area/49516/8 "2024-03-11T17:39:51Z")

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> [@thomaseverest](#):
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> This place could be deleted, but there are several dozen associated projects so I would not recommend doing that. You would first have to get all those project admins to change the place they are using.

shouldn’t you be able to just merge this into the standard place? (shouldn’t doing so convert all the projects over to the standard place? i can’t really think of any reason not to merge the places, if it’s possible – unless maybe there are indexing stresses.)

> [@rupertclayton](#):
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> I believe this is the standard place for Taiwan: [https://www.inaturalist.org/places/7887](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/7887)

yes, this is the country-level place

> [@cthawley](#):
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> Looks like it is here:  
> [https://www.inaturalist.org/places/taiwan-tw](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/taiwan-tw)  
> Though this doesn’t include some parts of the island for some reason.

this is the boundary of the old Taiwan province that is effectively the main island minus the special administrative areas. since some changes in the government a decade or two (or several?) back, i don’t think the province actually exists as a thing anymore, or if it does, [i don’t think it actually administers anything](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/taiwan-inaturalist-world-tour/4796/2). (so i think this iNat place is an anachronism at this point.)

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