# Out\_of\_range = FALSE?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/out-of-range-false/4441>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [June 24, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/out-of-range-false/4441 "2019-06-24T05:48:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![KitKestrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/kitkestrel/32/2501_2.png) [@KitKestrel](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/KitKestrel)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/out-of-range-false/4441/1 "2019-06-24T05:48:15Z")

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I just did a download of all my observations to do a bit of data quality checking. Among them, I found 6 observations that had out\_of\_range set to FALSE. I have looked at the observations, and can’t work out why this is. They all have locations, they don’t have down-marked locations in the data quality fields, they are not wildly off geographically… I think they are all introduced, but these are not by any means the only introduced species I have obs for…

The observation numbers are 19583563, 21192524, 21192526, 21223756, 21224048 and 21275741.

I don’t know what it means, nor how it was set. Any ideas or info highly appreciated!

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**Author:** ![psweet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/psweet/32/3156_2.png) [@psweet](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/psweet)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/out-of-range-false/4441/2 "2019-06-24T15:54:22Z")

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If out\_of\_range is set to false, that means the observation is where the species is known/expected to be. Out\_of\_range set to true means a species that isn’t where it’s expected to be. So it sounds like these are fine – the ones I’d be looking at are the ones where it’s set to true.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/out-of-range-false/4441/3 "2019-08-23T15:54:27Z")

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