When I sometimes look up the location of a project, inaturalist lists the area with a very small circle. I correct this in my pin to encompass the whole area. Case in point Moquah Barrens State Natural Area. 1 mile square. It shows up well on this map https://www.inaturalist.org/places/moquah-barre…

[image] matt227: mass edit on a series of observations From your Edit Observations page , select Batch Edit, then check the ones you want to change. Then choose Edit Selected and open the Batch Operations panel. There is a place to edit the location and then Apply down to all observations. […

yes and no. It is outside of where google has placed the border but not to where the actual border of the place. You can see that is still north of the road that marks the cutover stops. This was one instance in which I knew the exact location of it, most others I kept the location to more generali…

[image] matt227: It is outside of where google has placed the border but not to where the actual border of the place. Your observations need to be inside the boundaries of this place: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/moquah-barrens-state-natural-area We do not use Google places for projec…

It’s a file type, for geo boundaries. Button for flag is seen on the right, open the link for the place posted above.

(merging topics) [image] matt227: It is outside of where google has placed the border but not to where the actual border of the place. You can see that is still north of the road that marks the cutover stops. The border that iNat has matches both the image of the border map that I posted abo…

Question: If I observe something within an area (like Moquah Barrens) and give it an “accuracy” that includes some are outside the boundary of that area, do projects pick up that observation, or exclude it?

Centre of circle should be inside boundaries, so most of the circle should be inside too, but if it’s bigger than the place itself it doesn’t go to project as I remember.

For a small park where I wandered around, I often put the center of the circle in the center of the park, then make the circle big enough to include the whole park – all the corners. That usually makes the accuracy circle bigger than the park, though not by much. Sound like my observations wouldn’…

Actually sedgequeen it fits the description of what i did to my pin exactly. [image] So lesson learned. It still doesn’t answer why other methods I tried using including just selecting what the search gave me for the location. Or why doesn’t it allow me to enter a project from the get go. It off…

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