We have a traditional project limited by the boundaries of Florida (place_id=21). The problem is that we are not getting observations for corals and other taxa that are just outside this boundary, with similar at the border of adjacent states when the 30km taxon geoprivacy obscuring comes into play.…

The solution to this appears to be to to create smaller and smaller multiple barely-overlapping polygons until iNaturalist would accept them and then adding them all to the project, although I haven’t finished doing this yet, in part because I can apparently only create three per day.

You can actually create a place yourself, with a KML file (you can make one for free on Google Earth). I would not recommend making another place for Florida, as it would be confusing, but maybe one could be made for “waters around Florida” or something. A project could then include the locations “F…

Is this the project? https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fnai-tracked-species

I tried that, but couldn’t do it due to what’s explained in the link in my post.

I’d suggest removing the “must be observed in Florida, US” rule from the project - then people could add observations from the oceans off of Florida. You might get some stray non-Florida observations added but those could be easily removed, and I think it’s obvious the project is just for Florida an…

That will not work, as then people have to spend too much time weeding out non-FL records when they batch add.

Is there any way to petition iNaturalist to create a place such as I’ve described if users are not allowed to? And, related, it would be really nice if the documentation about creating places was changed, as I kept trying and trying, assuming that iNat servers were just overloaded or something, sinc…

[image] DT_Almquist: petition iNaturalist to create a place such as I’ve described if users are not allowed to? a petition sort of exists, although to get things down to a state level is slightly different than the contemplated approach probably. see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/implement…

[image] owlshead-wren: You can actually create a place yourself, with a KML file (you can make one for free on Google Earth). I find it easier to create the boundaries in Google Maps, then export it to KML for import to iNaturalist. [image] DT_Almquist: I tried creating a generalized pol…

Polygon place for Florida with a buffer

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owlshead-wren March 10, 2023, 9:32pm 6

Ah, not sure. That sounds like a glitch as I have been able to make KML files. Could be a size issue. Not sure.

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Polygon place for Florida with a buffer

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