With the decision this platform, like any concert you want to cover the new stuff and the greatest hits, so we need to get those greatest hits populated here for discussion and voting. The proposal is to allow multiple users to be listed as observers on a single observation record. This would cut …

This would be so incredibly useful! I’ve been taking out younger relatives with me to get observations and I am the only one with a “real” camera while they use phone cams. It would be great to be able to tag them on observations so they get to add the species I could get with my telephoto lens with…

Totally agree! I’m used to list-sharing on eBird, and it’s an excellent feature. Our statistics are not about human experience, but the life-form, so data would be more precise were it not duplicate. iNat is already a little more flexible than ebird with regards to edits. On iNat, I am able to ente…

Yes! this would be great for mushrooms too!

eBirder here. How I would DEARLY love this feature. A friend and I go on routine flora surveys (looking for specific target species) as volunteers for the NPS. She is the botanist of the two of us. (I’m learning, thanks to her!) I’m the birder of the two, and make a simultaneous bird count along o…

Not having a photo of a brief encounter or an occasion where you just didnt bring your camera really sucks. If a fellow who managed to get a shot uploads it here and you will also want that photo for your memories in your observations. IMO uploading a sighting without an image also feels bad nowaday…

I think there are other ways of achieving this objective. For example, your friend could add an observation field like “Additional Observers”, with either your proper name or your user login, or whatever you both agree upon. Then you can search for your friends observations that have that field va…

How to manage a shared observation, with photos from several observers, that happens to be a multiple-species observation? Who is asked to remove their photos? How to split the observation?

This is already implemented in eBird, with shared checklists. Each photo belongs to a single observer, but a new instance of the observation is created for each observer on the shared checklist. Each of those instances shows the photographer’s photo, with that person’s (photographer’s) name attached…

This feature is also implemented in the Danish species rapportation app called “Arter” where it seems to work well if inspiration is needed.

Share observations between users

Feature Requests

jeanphilippeb March 8, 2024, 6:52pm 61

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Duplicate prevention: Notify observers if their image checksums match others on the site.

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Share observations between users

Duplicate prevention: Notify observers if their image checksums match others on the site.

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