Several times I have seen observations where the accuracy is rather low, ca 2000km. Since I am tracing certain taxa in certain localities, I am pretty sure the accuracy was much more reasonable at the moment of uploading. The accuracy dropped later. I do not think it was done by observers, and suspe…

A recent example was https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/167950457 – I wrote “was” since the observer had already corrected the accuracy. AFAIK the accuracy was fine at the moment of uploading, and then changed to 2000+ km. I do not think I am able to find other examples right now but I have e…

Ok, I’ve switched this to the “General” area as it isn’t currently actionable as a bug report. If more details come to light, it is possible to make a bug report using them.

I think it’s the same as this bug? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/location-accuracy-expands-when-opening-saving-location/16225

I think no. There, it is about x2, and in my case(s) it is about x10000. :/

[image] kharkovbut: I did not write about the platform etc. since it seems that it’s not a platform issue platform does matter because different platforms provide different ways to input the accuracy value. in this case, it looks like the observation was originally created in Android. in the …

I use website version only. Thus I have no idea what is seen at other platforms. I suspect the same.

Spontaneous decrease of location accuracy?

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cthawley August 29, 2023, 12:38pm 2

Please fill out the bug report templateandr provide examples - otherwise it won’t be possible to address something like this…

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Spontaneous decrease of location accuracy?

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