Kudos on the new trusted friends system, I think it is a very good and powerful tool.
I\d like to suggest a minor tweak, that observations marked as Private be excluded though. I and most every person, which is a self-selected cohort, are happy to grant access to locations on public land to people I know, or trust (hopefully those 2 groups have a high overlap).
But there still is a need / desire for truly private things to stay private, if it is home (yes I know about the 1 private geofence, but if Iām only allowed one do I pick my house or cottage ?) or cases where the land is privaet, and Iām there with permission, it would be very helpful, and enhance use of the tool if I knew those private records were staying private.
Itās found in your iNat account settings, under āManage your relationshipsā on the right hand side. It brings up the list of users that you follow, with the additional option for each one to āTrust with hidden coordinates.ā
Chris, I re-wrote the title of this topic for clarity. Generally, it helps me and hopefully others when topic titles communicate the specific change or feature being proposed. Titles like āMinor change to new trusted users frameworkā could mean a lot of things.
Regarding this specific topic, we could certainly make it work that way, but thereās a variety of use cases we might want to accommodate. For example, I donāt really care if people I trust know where my back yard is, but if a property manager asked me not to share coordinates of observations from their property, I wouldnāt want to share them with the people I trust, because I trust them, but that property manager might not.
Is there a situation where it is important to share coordinates with other people when the geoprivacy is āprivateā that isnāt already covered by projects? Like, while I donāt care if people I trust know where my backyard is, I donāt need to share that information with them.
Ken-ichi, sorry my brain is not quite registering what you wrote, so if this does not answer it please let me know. In the case you cite, would the use case / solution if this were implemented not be to enter records at your house as obscured, so then you could share with folks you trusted, but the property ones as private, guaranteeing they are not visible ?
To me the use case for āprivateā should be just that, it means only 1 can see the true location.
That would work for me, but in theory some folks might not want to give any indication of where they live to a general audience but be perfectly fine sharing it with trusted people. But thatās just in theory. Thatās why I asked āIs there a situation where it is important to share coordinates with other people when the geoprivacy is āprivateā that isnāt already covered by projects?ā Iām particularly interested in concrete cases where people want that, and not theoretical situations.
