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 …

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 combi…

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…

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

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 .

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 P…

Many thanks @knicolson ! This is exactly what we’re striving for.

Multiple polygons per Place

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