I work at the Colorado Natural Heritage Program and am developing a Python script using the v1 API to periodically download observations for rare taxa. We have an iNaturalist project where many users have trusted us with their observation coordinates. I am both the project owner and the app owner, but when I use the API to download observations, the “private_location” field is only available for users who have directly trusted my account with their coordinates, not just project-level trust. When logged-in on a web browser, I can see the private coordinates from the users trusting the project, but not in the API with authenticated requests. Is there a way to resolve this issue? I was able to get project-level private location coordinates from the v0 legacy API, but I would like to avoid using this work-around if possible.
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