I’m taking a certified naturalist course, in California. I"m on an Android phone. The students are encouraged (well, okay, required) to submit iNaturalist observations. We’re doing it in a remote area. Other students seem to be getting a weak cell phone signal. I’m getting none. That probably depend…

If you start the upload without internet connectivity, the app will queue the upload with no ID unless you entered one manually. To get an AI (or as we like to call it computer vision CV) ID, you can go to the observation page and press the suggest an identification button. That should load the CV …

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/video+tutorials The tutorial ‘‘Adding an Observation on a Mobile Device’’'might help, but it seems not to include how to get the CV id.

[image] kevinfaccenda: you can go to the observation page and press the suggest an identification button. I am hopeful. However, I can’t find the “suggest the identification button.” Please advise. Is it on the app, the website, or both?

Both - here is how it looks on Android: [image] And website: [image]

I do most of my observations either without internet connection or (more often) when I do not want the mobile connection to be used or simply when I want to be fast and capture many objects. In that case I just store the photo in my ordinary Android photo gallery and I upload the photos later when …

A good tip to add also is to add a location to your observation first, then check what the CV has to say about it. Adding the location first often narrows the field of options to a few choices (assuming good photos of course), which can be gone through by process of elimination.

Okay, I found it. Thanks everybody! The part I was missing was that I have to click on the “Edit” button. That reveals “What did you see?” Then it all falls into place.

[image] vladimir_fuka: Sometimes I load the photos into the app for an observation I tried that. As far as I can tell, the app doesn’t get the location from the photo metadata. I can manually enter the location approximately, but it seems preferable to enter the precise location, in case othe…

The default is for the app* to indeed pull location metadata from the photos, so perhaps you have location sharing settings on your phone globally locked down? Nowadays there’s usually a phone settings page where you can set permissions for which apps are allowed to pull location data, I’d check tha…

You don’t have to edit an existing observation to add an ID. In the android app, there will be three icons/tabs underneath the photo: an “i” symbol, two overlapping speech bubbles, and a star. If you click on the speech bubbles, you can see any existing IDs and conversations. At the bottom of this t…

Are you sure your camera app actually stores the location metadata? Often it must be enabled. I never had to enable anything more for the iNaturalist app.

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vladimir_fuka September 1, 2023, 12:45pm 13

OK, it is a bug https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/android-app-not-reading-picture-location-data/37908

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