Obscured observations can clutter the maps making them frustrating to use and/or visually meaningless (can no longer see which areas have a lot of observations).
Please add an option in the user interface to hide obscured observations on maps. There should be an option to hide observations that are obscured manually by the user as well as those auto-obscured for conservation reasons.
I mostly care about this on the main observations/Explore page on the website and the Explore feature on Android.
Adding geoprivacy=open helps, but does not exclude those that are auto-obscured, and itās not an option on mobile.
(Edit: Revised some of the language above. Also now we can hide auto-obscured observations on web with a URL filter but still canāt hide manual or auto obscured within the user interface.)
Yes, please do this! I need to go rustle up a vote to vote for this. Please make it available on range maps too. It really wrecks the neat displays we could have on range maps by having these here, and turning them off would be super helpful. I know that would totally turn off some species, but thatās why we want the toggle. It doesnāt need to be āstickyā. But as cassi says even more important for āall observationsā type screens.Especially important too when you zoom out further and canāt even see on the points what is vs isnāt obscured.
In the long term it would be better yet to have obscured things just display as a gridded cell with darker color for more observations (like some eBird displays maybe) and not have points at all. The randomized points continue to cause tons of confusion with new users.
Having a better way to visually tell obscured points apart would be nice. Also points with huge accuracy circles could be shown differently (maybe lighter) - I often find observations with huge accuracy circles, sometimes larger than entire countries.
I did get the notification, and yes, thatās how that query should work now, except Iām now realizing that when I introduced taxon_geoprivacy I omitted setting it on observations where the taxon isnāt threatened but one of the current identifications is. Oi.
Hey just checking on the status of this, whether itās a thing of not.
I donāt want to block butā¦ A single user with a lot of time on their hands just uploaded 4,000+ obscured observations on top of me, making things frustrating and ridiculous. None of this personās observations appear rare or anything, they said they just wanted to āprotect the species.ā I think the person had an old nature photo collection and simply took the time to upload everythingā¦ and theyāre still in the process of adding more stuff, maybe thousands more things.
From what I can tell the filter idea was well-regarded but has not been implemented yet? Just checking in I guess, maybe this was discussed on another thread. Thanks.
