How come, when I click my observations from my profile, and zoom in on all the dots, I have a Gopher Tortoise (17259296) in the Atlantic Ocean, but yet when I view the Gopher Tortoise observation itself, the location is where it is suppose to be?

The species is listed as vunerable, and many vunderable or endanged species have their location automatically obscured. You can see the exact location, but anyone else will see its “obsecured” location, which randomly places the observation someplace nearby to keep people from specifically seeking i…

Observation Locations are Different

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erininmd February 9, 2020, 12:00am 3

Heres some previous discussion on taxon geoprivacy: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/clarifying-geoprivacy-reasons-for-obscured-coordinates-user-to-user-trust/730

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