Observations not included in CNC collection project

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Android

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Chrome

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025-paris-lamar-county-tx-usa
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/273397878
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/274138707

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Our local chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists are hosting the CNC for our county. Our computer uploaded observations are not making it into the collection project. App observations (iPhone and Android both) are showing up in real time with no problem. I’ve seen other forum postings saying the problem has to do with location circles. What does this mean and how can I teach a county-full of completely new users how to fix this? It is preventing anyone with camera photos (especially birds) from contributing to the project.

You probably need to include links to some observations you think should be in but aren’t, for anyone to diagnose what is going wrong.

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Got it. Edited to include 2 observations that are not in the collection project.

The blue-winged teal isn’t in the project because it was on 24th April - before the CNC started.
The scissor-tail flycatcher is in the CNC project.

You are correct! I don’t know what was going on yesterday when the scissortail didn’t show. I waited several hours for it to show, and I wasn’t the only one who wasn’t seeing them. But, I just tested it again tonight. The new observation from a camera and uploaded from my computer is showing in the collection project. So, I guess, hooray for problems that fix themselves, right?!

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