Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):
Step 1: Open “my observation” from main menu
Step 2: Look to the URL, it contains place_id=any.
Step 3: Switch view from observations
Step 4: Look to the URL, it do not contain place_id=any anymore.
Step 5: Reload page
Step 6: The form now has default place so observation set is different.
Now, if you remove default place from filter, place_id=any will not be added to the URL. Also, if you click on any observations link from species card, it will automatically add default place.
PS: I suppose the problem is appeared after this commit.
I click to Monarch observations link to view “340,101 observations”, and get no observations, because Russia is set againg as search place, which is not what I want. I have to manually remove it.
I think the problem is that “any” is not a valid place identifier. You can replace it with “world”, or “earth”, or (literally) “whatever” and it will always default to The World. However, AFAICS, there’s no numeric place identifier for The World.
Usually, when a place is selected from the list in the filter dialog, its place_id is added to the url query parameters. Once this is done, all the links on the Explore page will also automatically have that parameter added to them, thus making the place “sticky”. However, since you cannot explicitly select a place filter for The World, a place_id is never added.
