The region does not align with the island. Looks like there was in issue with the datum.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=68614
Rather than creating more bug reports i’ll just add another to this one since it’s a similar issue. Mods feel free to split if necessary.
There are two duplicated regions for Guam
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=96888
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7316
standard places in iNaturalist exist at “country”, “state”, and “county” equivalent levels. the first one is a “state” equivalent administrative region. the second one is the a “country” equivalent administrative region. doesn’t seem like there’s a problem here.
this isn’t really a bug. the place here appears to be community created, and there’s no guarantee of quality for community-created places. i can’t tell who created it, and it doesn’t look like it’s been used in any projects. if you have the boundaries for the place in a KML file (or something that could be translated to KML), you could provide them to a curator, who could then update the place boundaries.
that said, a standard place for this island does exist: Isla de Pascua (which also includes some of the surrounding waters). if you need to filter for observations on that island, you could use that standard place.
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Fair enough. I didn’t realize curators could modify places and thought staff had to do it which was why I posted here. Is there a tutorial for how to delete/replace a place? I can do it in this case.
if you have permission to edit the place, you should be able to go to the edit page (https://www.inaturalist.org/places/68614/edit). from there, look for the link to “replace boundary with KML”, and then use that to upload the proper KML file. (i’m assuming that you already have a proper file.) there’s also a delete button on the edit page. i’m not sure if curators have to check anything before they delete places.
Fixed it. Mahalo
Should I merge the two Guams? What benefit is there to having two entirely identical regions?
you can’t change standard places, even as a curator.
the point of having two places with the same boundaries is that they exist at different administrative levels. so if you’re looking for a set of countries, you’ll be able to find Guam, or if you’re looking for a set of states, then you’ll still be able to find Guam.
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