Observations in my obs, but not on explore or taxon pages

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Platform: website

Browser: Firefox

URLs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/bbk-htx?utf8=✓&q=&search_on=&quality_grade=any&reviewed=&geoprivacy=&identifications=any&captive=&place_id=&swlat=&swlng=&nelat=&nelng=&taxon_name=Bald+Eagle&taxon_id=5305&day=&month=&year=&order_by=observations.id&order=desc&rank=&hrank=&lrank=&taxon_ids[]=&d1=&d2=&created_on=&site=&tdate=&list_id=&filters_open=true&view=map

Description of problem:
I have 2 research grade obs of Bald Eagle.

I assumed that they would automatically be set to “obscured”. If this is not the case, please let me know how to set individual obs to “obscure”.

The observations are:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17213427
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25896915

Step 1: In the explore window a search for bald eagle in Harris County these obs do not show up.

observations/17213427 should show up here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=30.16178926809792&nelng=-95.52039906772484&place_id=any&swlat=30.141379384870824&swlng=-95.58816239627708&taxon_id=5305

observations/25896915 should show up here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=30.0961941207823&nelng=-95.38896610711117&place_id=any&swlat=30.085982925833594&swlng=-95.4228477713873&taxon_id=5305

Step 2: Likewise, a search from the taxon page does not show them either.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/5305-Haliaeetus-leucocephalus

Step 3: Thanks for all you do.

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Your bounding box is likely too small. I zoomed out a little more, clicked “redo search in map” to reset the bounding box to a larger size, and then yours along with a lot of other observations show up.

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I searched in the county itself (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=2701&taxon_id=5305&user_id=bbk-htx) and they show up. Obscured observations are publicly indexed at the accurate county, state, and country levels (and their equivalents outside of the U.S.) so doing a search in the actual county place will include them.

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Thanks

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Oh! Is this even when the “obscuration square” is partially outside the bounds of the county etc, or is it ust that counties etc are large enough to include most “obscuration squares”?

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The first one – there is an exception to the rule for Standard Places.

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Yeah, we show which county, state, and country an observation’s coordinates are in, even if it’s obscured.