Postion accuracy = NA

[ksanderson]

irrelevant to the question

[Ajott]

@jdmore

It depends a lot on the motivations of each iNaturalist user. Coming from a rare plant surveying background, I always feel compelled to be as accurate as possible. And I have been very grateful for the 5-10 meter accuracy of other people’s observations in cases where I have needed to find them again in the field and collect a scientific specimen to document a new species, a range extension, or some such.

I get that… however, would for me personally actually be another reason to not be too specific… I am rarely witin a 10m range with my locations. You might have good intentions and be reasonable when visiting those sites of interesting organisms… others might not. Might be me coming originally from an angle of photography in which “organism-tourism” is unfortunately a thing that can be quite disturbing for nature.
For most research question concerning range and distribution a radius much wider is sufficient. For more specific questions researcher might want to get in contact (as has happened)

[jdmore]

@Ajott

You might have good intentions and be reasonable when visiting those sites of interesting organisms… others might not.

I get that too, and fully support (and sometimes use) the obscuration functionality on iNaturalist, and also the trust functionality to unobscure for specific users. I always ask myself first, is public availability of this exact location likely to be a threat to the species or the habitat? For most things and places I photograph, the answer is no, but I do obscure the exceptions (if they are not already set up to automatically obscure).