New paper offers suggestions for improving the value of citizen(community) science data

[bouteloua]

@andy71

recording some notes about your route through the ecosystem of interest, how long you were there, and more detailed data on phenology and behavior of what you saw is always valuable

Related is the Trips feature, which you can read more about and see some examples here: https://www.inaturalist.org/trips

@bouteloua

I would love to see a little breadcrumbs trail of where I’ve walked as well as different little dots of unuploaded observations. It was also mentioned by another person on Twitter. It would be really cool to include this information in Trips: inaturalist.org/trips , and logging GPS continuously would make grabbing the location much faster for each observation.

This type/level of data would increase the value a lot.