I’m working on school wildlife spaces and I have an umbrella project for my city, with each school having a collection project under that umbrella. When I export observations for the city (umbrella project) I would like to be able to see the Places or Projects where each observation was made. This is important so that we can compare interventions for wildlife across the sites that we are working on. Is it possible? Or will I have to export each collection project’s data separately?
generally, if you wanted to see projects, you would have to export by each project separately (unless your projects were completely based on “standard” country / state / county places, in which case you could use those places as a proxy for project).
it’s possible to get observations using the API to see which projects are associated with the observation, but these will return only “traditional” projects and other projects in which the observer is a project member. going this API route, you should be able to see all the places the observation is associated with through. (if you’d like more information on how to do this, let me know.)
or if you wanted to get observations within a set of properties, you can view / export those all in one set by using project_id=[comma-separated list of projects]. this won’t tell you which project(s) the observation belongs to though, only that it belongs to at least one in your set. ditto with place_id.
Thank you for such a comprehensive answer & for your offers of further support! Ah, that’s a shame, though. It would have been so neat!
I’m not sure the API route will work for us, as I’d hoped to use collection projects so that schools and their local communities could all contribute observations freely. If it was the perfect solution then I’d forgo that, but it still doesn’t quite get us what we would need.
It looks like we’ll have to export each project’s data separately, which is fine but just a bit more time consuming!