Platform - Website Browser, if a website issue - I tried Firefox, Edge, and Chrome URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: Observations · iNaturalist Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): S…

This isn’t really a bug, the site accesses location information from 2 sources, 1 being Google maps, the other internally stored in the iNat database. The search bar on the explore page at te top uses the Google Maps search. iNat has no control over how things are named there. A better choice is t…

Searching for a city only gives a city park (Austin, TX, USA)

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pisum June 17, 2021, 7:33pm 4

this has been discussed in other threads. a moderator might want to combine this with one of the others at some point:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/when-exploring-observations-place-austin-tx-usa-doesnt-map-to-the-whole-city-of-austin/5522
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/explore-vs-places-different-boundaries-why/21358

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Searching for a city only gives a city park (Austin, TX, USA)

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