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Feature request details: When batch uploading, we should be able to sort our observations by species before hitting submit. When I batch upload things like moths I often have around 200 observations and like to include different individuals of the same species. However I also sometimes upload duplicated of the same individual but of different pictures because I photographed it again later in the night. This would but significantly easier to solve if I could compare all the individuals against each other before uploading instead of having to scroll up and down and round and round.
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This issue is one of the reasons why I organize and name my images prior to uploading and break large batches into smaller ones.
My concern with an auto-organization handled on the iNat size is that people are often far too read to accept CV recommendations uncritically as it is. I’d be concerned that this would encourage that tendency even more.
Maybe a way to handle this would be to instead have iNat ask something like, “Images A and D appear to be of the same organism, do you want to combine these into a single observation?” so that it’s image based rather than species based. It would have the same effect, but might help to avoid misidentifications and uncritical acceptance of CV species recommendations.
Of course, all this adds more to the back-end processing requirements of iNat, which is another thing to pay attention to.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think the OP is asking for anything related to the CV. My interpretation is they upload 50 records, they’ve already put their own IDs on each record, and they then want to just re-organise the thumbnails so all Species A are next to each other etc, so they can eyeball if there are accidental double ups, rather than, as they state, having to
Assuming you’re just using the regular upload page, you do have the option to reorder observations by dragging and dropping. Admittedly, if you’re working in batches of 200, it may not be the easiest to do, but it is an option.
Another possibility could be to sort by species before uploading and just upload (or drop onto the upload page) all of one species at a time.
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That would be helpful. Even just the ability to sort by date and time would be useful, once the metadata has been processed. I often use a couple of cameras and find that the Uploader puts images of the same thing at the same time, taken with different cameras, in completely different places on the page. That makes combining images a bit of a pain sometimes.
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