Search engine with problems with word brazil

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@paulogcarvalho

When searching for observations of a species in my country (Brazil), the name Brazil (or Brasil, in portuguese) is converted to Brasilia (Brazil’s capital) and iNat shows only the observations of that species in the city, not the whole country.

@diegoalmendras

the problem keeps, with Brazil and Brasil words

@wildwestnature

The place “Buffalo, NY” in Your Observations and Explore returns the the county Buffalo, Wisconsin, consistently over the past week of trying

in case you missed it, you should see jwidness’s post above:

@jwidness

When using the Location search on the Explore page, iNaturalist tries to look for a place called Brasil, but it doesn’t find the country, it finds Brasília, which it thinks is a closer match. To avoid this problem, please use Filters->More Filters->Place.

here’s my own attempt to explain the problem and workaround in another thread:

@pisum

generally, if you want to filter for a place on the Explore screen, you should use the Location box (X in the screenshot below) only as a fallback if Filters > More Filters > Places (Y in the screenshot) does not return the place you’re looking for.

Y will search only among places defined within iNaturalist. X will search for places in Google and then try to match the result to a place in iNaturalist, and sometimes that process doesn’t work as you would expect. (X is useful in cases where the place is not defined in iNaturalist, and in such a case, the Google place can be used as the basis for a bounding box within which your observation search will occur.)

one day the Explore screen will be redesigned to make the distinction between the Location search and the Places search more obvious, but it will probably be a while before that happens.