# Species Suggestions for the Wrong Continent

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/species-suggestions-for-the-wrong-continent/789>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/species-suggestions-for-the-wrong-continent/789 "2019-03-13T16:39:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![mreith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mreith/32/1650_2.png) [@mreith](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mreith)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/species-suggestions-for-the-wrong-continent/789/22 "2019-03-17T03:55:38Z")

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Uploading files from a developing country, where internet is at times slow and patchy is sometimes a really slow process … I think this might be largely due to functions like the picture based species suggestion process. Example: Tried to upload pictures of Consolea (Cactaceae) lately … typing Consolea in the name field … didnt stick … again … again … after 15 minutes i get the message from the website … we are sure this is genus Opuntia … and yes they look very similar, but a Consolea is (currently) not a Opuntia. So the computer based guess did cost me 15 minutes for a single observation upload and it was worse than my own guess. I have more examples like this … but its maybe boring to read. **I would love to have a upload site, where this data eating nonsense is minimized and where i just can upload stuff!!**

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