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I think there are other ways of achieving this objective. For example, your friend could add an observation field like âAdditional Observersâ, 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 value.
There are other reasons why the share function could be useful, but in the absence of such a feature, there are still workarounds for your issue.
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?
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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 photographerâs photo, with that personâs (photographerâs) name attached. In principle it wouldnât be thaaaat different from situations where an observation is duplicated to record a different species, with multiple observations referring back to a single image.
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This feature is also implemented in the Danish species rapportation app called âArterâ where it seems to work well if inspiration is needed.
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Just here to hopefully signal to the community & staff that this is definitely a much needed feature that would simplify a lot, enrich user experience & drive up engagement on the app.
I have tried to recruit people close to me to use this app when exploring nature together and with some, like my girlfriend or mom, Iâve managed to get them hooked and start uploading. When we see something together, that possibly I even found on my own (ex. sea organisms that I bring to shore like starfish, mollusks, etc.), so far Iâve let them upload their photos and opt out of making my own duplicate observation with the same photos, to incentivise them on discovering & using the app.
The downside this brings is that I end up not âobservingâ on the app like a dozen organisms that I have no other observations of & are in areas often highly under-documented (ex. Southern Greece). Itâs definitely a bummer as Iâd love to have the full list of things Iâve found & captured on camera on my profile & observation map, and Iâm considering simply re-adding them myself too & specifying with the âsecondhand obsâ or âadditional obsâ fields to clarify, which is not really a solution.
This feature existing would immediately solve this issue and would also be helpful in giving more heavy-users the option to invite as collaborators their peers when documenting something seen together (meaning I could also involve my gf/friend/relative more by inviting them as collaborators on observations Iâm making of things I spotted while together in nature).
I really really wish we can see this feature implemented sometime in the future for all of the reasons put forth by everyone in this threadâŚ!
Thnx for reading the rant xoxo
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I agree that this could be a useful feature. However, I think several of your points can already be addressed:
If you take your own photos and upload them, there is no problem with making your own observation, even if someone else has taken and posted their own photos of the exact same individual organisms⌠The only real issue is reposting pics from another user.
You can also make a medialess observation so that the organism appears on list, maps, etc. It just wonât be RG. I do this for things I wasnât able to take a pic of.
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As long as one observation by a user has been added, the organism has been documented there - adding a second, duplicate observation wouldnât help (and could potentially lead other users to misunderstand the number of times something has been observed if they arenât paying attention enough to notice the observations are duplicates).
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