In the list of “PLACES” there are a bunch of “New York City” listings and they all look great. But if you search for My Observations and narrow down to Place: New York City, it selects all of New York state. There seems to be no way to narrow down correctly to NYC in the My Observations part of the …

Hi @steven-cyclist - can you provide screenshots and URLs to help explain the issue you are running into? If you use the place filter as Melodi suggested on the Your Observations page ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=steven-cyclist&verifiable=any ), you can narrow down …

In regular search Google places are used, if they don’t fit your needs - open filters and choose a place there.

Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About): NA Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox, although my lab peers have had a similar issue using Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observation…

You need to use iNat places in filters, what you use are Google places iNat has no control over (sadly).

If this is really the “solution”, then iNat should redesign the page layout. Expecting people to click 3 more times (Filters, More Filters, Place) when there’s a big giant “Location” bar on the top of the page already asking for input is counterintuitive.

That update is from 3+ years ago, which as somebody recently mentioned on another thread is tech developer speak for “not a priority”. I know the tiny iNat staff is swamped with growth challenges… but that represents a choice in their allocation of resources. Anyway, this is partly why I mostly gav…

Please fill out the following sections to the best of your ability, it will help us investigate bugs if we have this information at the outset. Screenshots are especially helpful, so please provide those if you can. Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant…

This is maybe the issue, which is a more general Google Maps integration issue: [Screenshot 2023-07-11 at 8.17.06 PM]

This is a known issue, I moved your report to this existing report. In the meantime, please use Filters-> More Filters-> Place, as in the first screenshot above.

Place-New York City doesn't work

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jwidness January 6, 2023, 6:44pm 11

iNat is already planning a redesign for the Explore page and 4 of the first 20 comments include something about Location vs Place searching, so it seems likely that will be addressed.

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Place-New York City doesn't work

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