Interesting to note, thank you!
Unfortunately my mail to iNat NZ didn’t achieve much, so I guess it’s back to individually flagging each species…
I always obscure the observations at my house, but you can create a traditional project to add them all to and also add them to an umbrella project that exists for home projects. That way you can still keep track of them all despite the scattered locations around your general vicinity
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I obscure most of my observations, and I don’t really see an issue with it. I mostly upload reptiles & amphibians, and I obscure for a few reasons.
a) protected species. When I find a red-bellied newt, California giant salamander, or something else protected, I also obscure all my other observations from that day, since leaving them open defeats the purpose of obscuring the giant salamander, for example.
b) even if I don’t find a special species, the area which I am at could be very diverse, secluded, or a very good place to find animals. A place away from general knowledge that I found on my own. I do not want people seeing my observations, then possibly tramping through my spots. Especially with the fact that some people are not as respectfully as they should be. Coming back to a spot and seeing all the rocks un-placed back and squashed lizards everywhere would be horrible.
For those reasons are the reasons that a lot of other people I know obscure there observations. For plants though, I don’t know much about, but I can imagine the reasons are pretty similar.
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This is a sensible idea. I’ve been wondering how to go about my uploading of jeweled gecko observations, as they’re generally while I’m out in the field and putting up dozens of other observations all in that area. Unfortunately I’ll often be in one area for a week or more! I’d presumably have to obscure all my observations from that area across that whole time period, which can sometimes be well over a hundred observations.
I just don’t upload such observations in the end. I’d love to have those observations up, but I feel the risk is just too high, and the damage it does to all my other observations by obscuring them is also too high.
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Totally reasonable to not post at all. You could also consider waiting a couple of months and then uploading them as “private”. This would make it very difficult to connect the observations, but, of course, for total security just not posting is the only foolproof way.
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