Setting up specific field sites for a Project?

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Hi all, new to the forums so apologies for any mis-categorisation etc. Just looking into a project for a company I work for at the moment as we do biodiversity audits at some offset sites. We’d love to have a project specifically for these sites, but considering: 1. They’re specific areas that are unlisted, and 2. I’m in Australia and we already have so many missing places, I was just wondering what the best way would be to go about this if it is possible at all.
Alternatively, if there is an option to choose what observations you personally want to add to a project instead of it being automatic, I’m all ears. But as far as I’m aware this is not an option, you can only specify people, listed places, or species in the project settings.

Would uploading a GIS/KML overlay of the areas be the way to go? Or would we have to upload the KML of each separate site (there’s about 10 sites for reference, and I’m aware of the places limit).

Any guidance would be much appreciated, thank you! :blush:

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I’d start at

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000176472-understanding-projects-on-inaturalist

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000175028-what-is-an-inaturalist-place-

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000175019-how-to-make-a-place-on-inaturalist

It’s one way to do it. Depends on if you want to collect observations from all surveys in one place, or have separate places for each.

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Thanks for that! I’ll have a squiz at what is involved in making places again. We do want to collect all observations of all the sites in one project, so it’s almost like an archive of what we see while out in the field.

Thanks again, I’m sure I can work out something from here, much appreciated. :blush: