It’s easiest for me to upload observations from my phone, especially since many of the plants and insects that I photograph are done with my phone. Sometimes the location automatically gets sent to iNaturalist, sometimes not (and I’m not sure why). In the cases where it does not I find it extremely …

Looks like the beta version of the Android app now has the ability to search for a location when adding an observation if folks want to try it out.

I tweaked the subject to make it an action verb. [image] donnamiller: if I have uploaded an image with approximate location, but want to give a more accurate location, is it possible to edit the location from the website? I have tried and couldn’t find a way to do it. Yes, click on the blue …

[image] tiwane: The app should start getting your location once you start an observation. Are you taking photos within the app, or importing photos from your phone’s gallery? Is it possible you don’t have your location services (gps) enabled for the app? most of us are just using the built-i…

[image] donnamiller: Sometimes the location automatically gets sent to iNaturalist, sometimes not (and I’m not sure why) I get that with my camera… If I start it up and take a photo before the GPS has a chance to “locate”, it will result in an observation without a pin location. Usually it is…

Mostly I use my phone for the photos I’m going to upload to iNaturalist, but sometimes I do use photos from my camera. The phone photos often do have the location GPS co-ordinates, but not always. I’m not sure why some don’t.

Oh that makes sense. I bet that’s what happening to me in many of these instances too, it’s just not getting GPS loaded before I take the photo. I am often in very remote locations, and it’s possible the GPS signal is not getting through.

Thank you. It’s a hassle to have to go to the website every time I need to do this though. So I hope that the app soon has that functionality. Is the app being actively developed? I haven’t ever seen an update for it when I’ve updated my other apps, but I may have missed it.

It’s currently in 10% production release as well, so some non-beta users might be able to update to it. It will be given a wider release once we know this version isn’t going to cause crashes and such.

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janetwright May 19, 2019, 3:16am 3

Is it possible you don’t have your location services (gps) enabled for the app? most of us are just using the built-in location on our cell phones, not entering it.

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