i did a visualization of the clickable are vs the new grid, and this is what i see in terms of misalignment: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/open-test-of-map-tile-improvements/7833/89. i’m hopeful that they can address it now that the grid has officially replaced the circles. (see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/is-the-red-squares-on-the-observation-map-an-intentional-change/9244 .)
below is a visualization for the points (pins + obscured circles), where the points are in green and the clickable area is in red. note that i think the pins (the upside down teardrops) in the actual iNaturalist maps are shifted down a bit so that you can click on the fat end of the pin instead the point of the pin. from what i can tell, the clickable areas match up pretty well with the obscured circle markers, and if you shift the pins down slightly, they appear to match up pretty well with the red clickable area, too. every once in a while (particularly when the clickable area is arranged as more of a plus sign than a square), you might encounter something that might not be totally in line, but i think it’s a function of the need to approximate the non-square markers with a set of square cells. so, again, i generally don’t see a problem with the pins.
