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 [image]

[image] kevinfaccenda: 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 “sta…

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

[image] pisum: this isn’t really a bug 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.) ther…

[image] pisum: 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. Should I merge …

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 b…

Rapa Nui region broken

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Rapa Nui region broken

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