I’m with the Stewards of Alberta Natural Areas (SAPAA) and am currently setting up a project specifically for all the types of protected areas within the province of Alberta, Canada. Is there a way to add all our protected areas into one Place? There can be about a dozen for one category and over a hundred for another. Ideally, we’d like to have two Places (e.g. Ecological Reserves and Natural Areas). Can this be done and does someone have a detailed procedure for doing this?
Thank you!
It is possible to have a place with multiple polygons but there are limits to how large places can be in general so adding too many could be an issue.
In terms of the two categories, however, you may want to consider using separate projects for each and then potentially an umbrella project to combine everything under consideration.
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Thanks PDWhugo - I was thinking the Umbrella project may be the way to do since Individual projects allow adding a Place filter, while Umbrella projects don’t. If large number of areas are used in Projects, do you know anyway of minimizing the list, so a person doesn’t have to scroll down a couple of screens to see the next section, which is the important Map?
I don’t think there is any way to deal with the scrolling thing directly but I think in an umbrella project it would also show a map (after only listing the two projects in the umbrella) so perhaps again it would be helpful for that.
Thanks - I’ll give that a try!
It just occurred to me that depending on what your needs are, you could also just keep the URL for a different view of the projects which focuses on the observations map e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/your_project?tab=observations&subtab=map
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Broken link pdwhugo
I think you are supposed to change the proposed URL into one where “your_project” is substituted by a real project name, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/sapaa-pnt?tab=observations&subtab=map.
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Yep - missed that completely! Thank you for bring that to my attention @thehowlingwindbeckons
The Protected Parks of South Australia Project is similar to what you have described above.
https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/protected-parks-of-south-australia
Each protected area is defined as a place, each place has its own project and then there is an umbrella project called “Protected Parks of South Australia” which contains all the individual projects. I didn’t set this up but I use it all the time when visiting local parks. Although there are different types of protected areas these are not separated and there is a long list of individual parks that need to be navigated. Once the individual places and projects have been established I guess umbrella projects could be used to aggregate them in many other ways ie by types of park or by regions.
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Many thanks @knicolson! This is exactly what we’re striving for.