New iPhone App - can only search iNaturalist Places

There’s still something wrong with the maps in the new app. Some locations just will not be found in-app, even though they can be found in Apple Maps and google maps. This was true in the old version of the app, too, but I had a workaround where I could search for street names near the location (south waterfowl way, in this case), but now that doesn’t work either.

Here’s the location in Apple Maps:

Here’s trying to find it in inaturalist next:

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but since I can’t search for it, I just have to manually find it on the map every time I want to post an observation from certain locations

Moved this from https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-next-app-soft-launch-for-iphones/55277

This is something we discussed this week and you’re correct - it currently only searches iNaturalist Places. We want to add more search options liek getting locations from Apple/Google Maps and allowing coordinates to be entered.

Curious, what’s your use case here? When making new observations, or using the Explore screen, or for something else?

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