I’m still unclear on how places work, e.g. if I search for a town, should I also see all the observations of places within that town? So there seem to be two Hayward towns in CA. One is in Mariposa County and shows up as Hayward, CA, US. The other, the one I’m interested in, is Hayward in Alameda C…

I assume this is the one you are referencing ? https://www.inaturalist.org/places/hayward-ca-us It shows no species because it is one of thousands of ‘single point places’ that have been created in the database, meaning it has been defined incorrectly as a single GPS coordinates, in this case it a…

Place Hayward, CA is inconsistent

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danaleeling July 17, 2019, 2:11pm 3

I am reminded of https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/acceptability-of-deleting-single-point-places/3840

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Place Hayward, CA is inconsistent

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