# Unable to edit community curated place **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Tags:** staff-can-replicate, issue-made\ **Created:** [February 18, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017 "2024-02-18T20:20:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/1 "2024-02-18T20:20:47Z")
**Platform** : Website **Browser** : Chrome and Safari **URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: [https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bentsen-rio-grande-valley-state-park](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bentsen-rio-grande-valley-state-park) **Screenshots of what you are seeing** (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: [https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/](https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/)): ![Screen Shot 2024-02-18 at 3.18.13 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/3X/a/a/aa52eab808337cf364863f3d69334735cb02ba7a.jpeg) **Description of problem** : Step 1: As a curator, click Edit Place: [https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bentsen-rio-grande-valley-state-park](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bentsen-rio-grande-valley-state-park) Step 2: Admire the whale shark. Note that this place is also missing the place creator. This is a different issue from [this one](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/some-non-standard-places-are-not-editable-even-by-curators/11728), where the edit button is not available. This came up from this flag: [https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/634575](https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/634575) ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/2 "2024-02-18T20:52:13Z")
Weird, I can open that page with my staff account, but not with a curator account. We can take a look this week. ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/3 "2024-03-02T20:39:04Z")
Same issue with these places: [https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/651033](https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/651033) [https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/651034](https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/651034) ---
**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/4 "2024-03-03T00:08:11Z")
how do you create a place with no boundaries? ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/5 "2024-03-03T00:11:09Z")
Not sure, but there are a lot of places that are just points. Maybe these ones are a separate issue, but I’ve been able to edit other point places before. ---
**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/6 "2024-03-04T13:33:51Z")
I wonder if maybe this is the same issue as for these two places?: [https://www.inaturalist.org/places/sfl5mr](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/sfl5mr) [https://www.inaturalist.org/places/south-florida-5mr](https://www.inaturalist.org/places/south-florida-5mr) ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/7 "2024-03-04T15:05:15Z")
Yeah that’s actually what I linked to in the above flags. Sorry that might’ve been a little confusing… ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/8 "2024-03-06T21:05:49Z")
I asked the place creator to send KMLs because I don’t _think_ they should be able to make places like this, but haven’t heard back yet. It would be good to see if that’s part of the issue. I dowloaded the place’s KML from iNat, but I don’t think that’s the exact same file that was uploaded. Made a Github issue here: [https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4036](https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/4036) ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/9 "2024-03-07T22:42:22Z")
Here’s another: [https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/648186](https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/648186) I wonder if this is more recent as I don’t think I’ve seen this before, and I’ve gone through all the place flags a few times. ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/10 "2024-03-09T23:02:50Z")
And another one: [https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/651805](https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/651805) ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/11 "2024-04-01T21:16:35Z")
Should be fixed now. How’s it looking for you? ---
**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/12 "2024-04-02T21:10:22Z")
Looks fixed for me. ---
**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unable-to-edit-community-curated-place/49017/13 "2024-04-03T15:00:03Z")
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