Two observations are literally side by side in photos of each. GPS is giving co-ordinates so close that only one teardrop shows on the map, even when zoomed in as far as possible. Neither is rare but both are uncommon in this region. Should I alter the co-ordinates of one to try to get separate locations showing on the map?
no you shouldn’t. There are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of records on the site that have their pins superimposed directly over other pins, it’s not a problem
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I’m a surveyor; when I observe something while surveying, I put the coordinates of a traverse point, lot corner, or the like, and estimate the distance from there to what I observe. I may observe several plants and reference them to the same traverse point.
Repeat observations (same maple tree, same spiderweb in same window) get the same coordinates.
The unanswerable questions of how big is a point or wide is a line.
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