I know that the lowercase/uppercase of Tags sometimes gets changed according to a standard. Did this standard get changed recently for words such “California” and “Mountain Quail”? My July 20 submitted observations got automatically ‘lowercased’ to “california”, but my July 13 submitted observations still have the correct “California”. Odd.
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Does iNat consider California and california as two separate tags?
Has someone recently added ‘california’ ? If so, the onus is on ‘someone’
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I don’t think that iNat considers “California” and “california” as two separate tags. I wish it would. Currently, if you try to add the tag “California”, iNat corrects it to the lowercase version.
i don’t know exactly would would have caused it, but they are working on switching things in the web from the v1 version of the API to v2. so it’s possible that something about the change caused the change in behavior.
in the past, it seemed like the capitalization was based on the first input version of the particular tag. it’s possible that now it’s based on some other determination. maybe now it’s based on just min(), but maybe there was a time when, say, v2 allowed the value to be input just as is, without trying to sync it with previous values. so maybe that’s how lowercased versions of, say, California could have snuck in. just guesses…
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More info here:
https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/pull/4552
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That pull-request does indeed seem to point to the cause of this problem. I can’t decipher though if a solution is in the works or not.
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