Hi all, I usually obscure the location of my observations for privacy reasons. However, I’ve noticed that the community curated Encompassing Places information can effectively reveal the location or greatly narrow it down to a small area. For example, the location is obscured for this observation a…

OK, so for a few years (I think pre-2020 or so) we made it so non-standard places used by CNC projects would sort of act as standard places when it came to obscuration - meaning they would be publicly shown to be in that place. For reasons I don’t understand, the organizer of the 2019 Glasgow CNC ad…

Thanks for posting. I’ve unlisted because it deals with a potential workaround for obscuration that could be used to compromise locations. I’ll mention @tiwane (staff) and @jwidness if they can give some feedback. I can confirm that my own obscured observations also show the encompassing community …

Good point. Apologies, I hadn’t thought of that. A lot of the encompassing community curated places are fine (e.g., some taken elsewhere in the city start with ‘Scotland (GB)’ or ‘Glasgow (Scotland)’, which anyone can guess from the obscured data anyway. There’s just the odd occasion where too much…

No worries, it’s a totally reasonable question and no fault to you for asking it.

That place shouldn’t be able to index any obscured observations, see https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000169942-why-is-my-observation-not-showing-up-in-a-place-or-collection-project-i-know-i-observed-it-there- [image] cthawley: I can confirm that my own obscured…

Thanks for the reply. If I log out and view the observation, then I can still see the smaller community curated places (Kelvingrove Park is still there for this observation). This is also true if I use a different, newly-installed browser (checked to rule out any influence of browsing data). It als…

Sorry if there was some confusion – my question was specifically for @cthawley To me, it looks like Kelvingrove is the only place with this issue, I’m just curious if Chris has another example.

I think this one would qualify: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/joseph-montes-de-oca-spring-2021-yard-squad-circle It seems to be entirely within a grid cell. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75580793 I made the observation within it Private this morning though when I saw that: https…

It doesn’t look like the place has been edited since its creation back in 2018: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/kelvingrove-park

it has a 2020 updated date https://inaturalist.org/places/125598.json

@jfeehan Thanks for bringing this up, we’ll take a look.

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