Whenever I look at the People page on the iNaturalist site, I am always amazed at the number of observations that the top observers manage to rack up for the current month and the year. It invariably leads to a question I ask every time: how do they do it? A secret technique? Being touched by the na…

You do realize that we are a dying breed! Soon no one will remember what a world without internet was like.

Or a world in which many of your photos are on translucent slides in a cardboard box in your closet.

Luckily iNat is drawing digital natives to bridge the gap to the dinosaurs who remember before.

[image] sedgequeen: I download from my camera to my computer. There I crop photos, throw out the worst ones, label, and upload. A camera with GPS would really help! However, I’m OK with selecting all and picking a central location with a large enough “accuracy” to include all the observations. O…

I have developed a decent system for using my phone for gps in conjunction with my Canon camera. First, for anyone trying this for the first time, I learned a trick from someone here - my phone’s camera takes a moment to figure out where I am once I open the app up. So as soon as I start hiking, I t…

This is my main hobby. It also depends on what your subject range is. From plants alone it is easy here to get 100 obs in a half-day. Insects, birds, reptiles tend to be in shorter supply, so if you aren’t going heavy on plants you’ll probably struggle to reach any significant observation count in a…

I just stumbled on the 35k observation profile of a user that just placed an ID on one of my posts, and here am I back on this thread trying to reconcile the disparity with my 1k observation page. It’s all good! Do you :)

Counting down to 7K species. 35 34 33 … and 20th October - 19 18 17 … https://www.inaturalist.org/people/703316

I’ll pretend I didn’t see that 🥲

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sullivanribbit September 23, 2021, 5:28pm 85

@tiwane has written an excellent tutorial for how to geotag photos taken from a camera without a GPS, here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/geotagging-photos/66

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