I’m a bit confused and frustrated as to how this (apparently?) isn’t possible, and moreover that the only request for it that I can find is Danny’s post from last month, relatably treating this as a bug report. I understand this is technically an absence of a feature, not a bug (regardless of how s…

[image] pulk: I’m hoping at least that someone can point to any existing request for this I missed, or explain why this feature is more difficult or less necessary than it looks to me, or a workaround, or sympathy, or something… the kind of query you’re describing is relatively complex becaus…

I had noticed this too. Thank you for writing it up. And I’m glad there is a way to address it @pisum so thank you for that too. I have wondered about if there would ever be a viable path for curation of observation tags - something like how wikipedia editors can lump together redundant articles o…

Is there a particular place you’re most interested in? It’s a lot harder if you’re looking at the entire world… because different regions choose different observation fields. I agree with pisum that it’s much harder than it would seem to do this, especially since the observation field data itself …

I would like to see duplicate observation fields merged but I don’t think it would be easy

That is interesting thank you… & seems to cover the origin of the GitHub hosted workaround/solution I also just noticed this text while editing an observation field I made: About Editing Observation Fields You can edit this observation field because you created it or because you’re a site curat…

[image] mkremedios: Keep in mind that observation fields can be used for observations of any taxon, so try not to use taxon-specific terminology The annotations appear to be aware of iconic_taxa. It would be easier if the observation fields had the same freedom… it would allow them to map mo…

I am really grateful for the thoughtful reply. I understand that what you were going for, and maybe achieved, is to provide both an explanation for the difficulty and a viable workaround. But I can’t help feeling like this is neither an explanation for the difficulty nor a viable workaround… Your e…

[image] pulk: The feasibility of your workaround confirms that, doesn’t it? putting aside the fact that my workaround is exponentially slower than running a regular observation search, just because you can work around an issue outside of the normal workflow for some use cases doesn’t mean tha…

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there’s been previous discussion in many other threads. of particular note: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/standardize-and-clean-up-observation-fields/363/17.

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