New project - with a new kml defined place - failing to include any observations

General
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Hi there,

I’m new to inaturalist and hoping to use it for a public bioblitz in October this year. Today I have been trying out ‘projects’ for the first time. Everything seems pretty clear but I have run into an issue when using a new ‘place’, which I created using a kml file.

Here is the project that I have created: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/trial-falmouth-project

Hopefully you can see that there are no observations included. This seems to be related to the new place that I have created because when I change this - by selecting a predefined place - observations are included. I also cannot seem to add any observation to this project.

Maybe I have to wait a while before my new place is fully operational? I’m not getting any errors or warning messages.

Many thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Ben

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I’ve had this problem before also. It takes a little while after a new place is defined for the observations within that place to show up on searches of that place. I don’t know why.

But looking at your link now, it seems to have resolved itself.

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As the yellow banner on the place creation page says, creating a new place is one of the more burdensome things one can do on iNatutralist. Thus, it can take a while before the observations in the new place are reindexed. The site would be much slower if this process wasn’t regulated.

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It has indeed! Many thanks! I suspected this was the case but could see any ‘pending’ messages or anything like that

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Understood. It wasn’t too long a wait. I just wasn’t sure if that was the problem or not