Search engine with problems with word brazil

[fmiudo]

Have a look at this https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-engine-with-problems-with-word-brazil/28136

[jeanphilippeb]

Places / Selecting “China” ends up in HK

[carnifex]

Alternative suggestion to avoid going to the filter options:

Search for Brazil or Brasil in the search bar on top left. Country should appear as a top suggestion, independent of language settings. Then just click on ‘view observations’

[diegoalmendras]

the problem keeps, with Brazil and Brasil words… this when I look in my Your Observations browser

[wildwestnature]

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

[pisum]

@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.

[diegoalmendras]

I know there are a wide options to reach one Place, but specifically, Im asking to fix the one I posted, not just because I’m worrying, its is just I believe is have to be usefull and friendly for new users. These inaccuracies could scare new users, since the method you suggest I think is easier for experienced users and those who have been on the site for a while.

[wildwestnature]

Thank you for the explanation and screen capture. That helped us experiment with that process. We now know how to do it.

The place “buffalo, NY” did not exist under more filters, but some places within the city of Buffalo did and so we could select one of them and then expand the search in the map itself

[pisum]

@diegoalmendras

fix the one I posted

i’m not sure what you’re thinking of as a fix.

as far as i can tell, the system is working as designed, though there are definitely issues with the design of the location vs place filters. if you’re saying that the way those filters are presented to users should be redesigned, i doubt that many people would disagree with that, but i don’t think bringing up the Brasil / Brazil case again and again in this thread is going to more quickly lead to any change in that direction.

iNat staff have brought up in the past their intention to revamp the Explore page, and when they asked for suggestions for changes that should be made as part of the revamp, this problem was brought up more than once (ex. https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ideas-for-a-revamped-explore-observations-search-page/8439/21), and it has been brought up many times elsewhere in the forum since then as well.

so i’m fairly certain the staff are well aware of the problem. one day the problem will be addressed, but i suspect we will have to wait until the Explore page is revamped to see any action. in the meantime, we just need to help educate others on how to best use the page as it exists.

[intelec]

When selecting the name “Brazil” or “Brasil” or “republic of brazil” etc, the map selection selects the area of brasilia (which is the capital of brazil) instead of the full country of Brazil, i’ve noticed this isnt a problem for mexico (for exemple) when i search for mexico, the whole country is selected, when i select brazil, only brasilia is selected

[cthawley]

Welcome to the forum! I’ve moved your post here since this is a known issue - you can see some of the ways to work with this in posts above.