I have two observations of old human waste/buildings and I was wondering if they still counted as casual like most other human ID’s, or if they wouldn’t due to historical context https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149062365 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/149061633

Yes, since iNat is for things having a naturalistic value.

iNaturalist is for all the other species. With how much of the world is completely human-centric and altered, I don’t think having observations of human activity would be productive or meaningful.

Humans are certainly not separate from nature. However, iNat seems focused on non-human organisms and searches that returned human results are not what most users are interested in. It should be easy for someone interested in humans in particular to check mark the box to show casual observations. Al…

The only humans I’ve posted on iNaturalist (just a few) were naturalists I knew well and who are now deceased. Other iNatters have done something similar with deceased individuals. It’s a small way to honor naturalists who are no longer with us. Those records should remain Casual as well.

Cool finds! But iNat’s focus is on observing wild organisms (or recent evidence of them) so anything IDed as Homo sapiens is automatically made casual grade. (Also, basically every record on iNat is already a record of where a human was at a place and time, so it’ll provide valuable historical data…

I have some observations of “humans” that are stuff like cave drawings, quite a few ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the frozen in time things (including casts of bodies) of Pompeii and the like. To me, that’s a little different from when kids will post pictures of their schoolmates and stuff like th…

Noob question: Does iNaturalist or any of the projects that use it benefit from H. sapiens being on the list of species? Only H. sapiens uses iNaturalist, so observations of H. sapiens don’t seem relevant.

Probably not in the way other species are useful. Some projects are meant to be lighthearted and there’s a lot of joking around. I could see human observations leading to somebody having a laugh, which could be useful to some. It’s not a noob question either. It’s like a gray area and people have di…

Should H. sapiens observations with historic value still be casual?

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rupertclayton June 1, 2023, 12:13am 5

I wonder if there is a citizen observation platform for industrial archeology or local history?

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Should H. sapiens observations with historic value still be casual?

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