I got an email from the INaturalist team telling me about the city nature challenge (CNC). I would love to participate, and the region I live in is participating! However, this weekend, I am traveling to another region (unrelated to any iNat expeditions), which is also participating. Should I include my findings under the location I’m traveling to, or my home location? Or will this be categorized automatically by the system?
Individual CNC projects are geographically based and will automatically add your observations even if you don’t join. Observations outside the bounds of your local project when traveling won’t/can’t count for it.
If you are making observations outside any local CNC then you will want to join the global project page so they are counted for the CNC overall (otherwise they won’t be).
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Your observations will automatically show up in the relevant projects based on their locations and times, so happily iNat away and you’ll be contributing to two challenges.
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Could anyone tell me specifically what is the challenge about the Urban Challenge? I cannot construct in my head an appropriate definition for it, it is quite ambiguous to me and simple.
Yup. It started as LA vs SF, but now it is often within the bounds of a County, for example. Each group decides what geographic area they want to include. For example, as a member of the San Luis Obispo County, California Chapter of the California Native Plant Society in cooperation with the Morro Bay National Estuary Program, and the Central Coast Chapter of The Wildlife Society, we formed an ad-hoc team to plan and decide these things and register with the Umbrella Project.
Here is a web page about the history of the thing, and why the word “city” -
https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/about
Thanks much everyone!
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