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OK, this has been fixed. It will only work for coordinates in decimal format, eg 37.8866416389, -121.9350255.

While that works, you used to just be able to search the coordinates in the Location box, and the “appropriate” input boxes would autofill, which was a lot more efficient.

not sure what to tell you. it looks like the iNat developers switched out the interface that they use for finding Google Places. so that’s just the way this new interface behaves. i doubt this new behavior would be considered a bug, but maybe the iNat developers might consider adding some logic to …

This was bugging me too. I updated my Chrome extension to hack it back in; I’ll reply again once the update is reviewed and published (probably a couple days).

We’ll see if we can add it back, but it might take some doing. I’m interested in why you’re manually entering coordinates - are you recording coordinates in the field? It’s not a workflow I’m familiar with.

Speaking for myself, when identifying I sometimes crop previously uploaded images and reupload them to see what CV has to say about the cropped version vs. the original. I was using the copy button added by the extension to easily replicate the location of the original observation.

I don’t have GPS but hike in a group. If a companion has uploaded pictures of that I copy their GPS for my obs. (But I have always gone via the latitude and longitude boxes)

This change is live now in v0.8.0 . Doesn’t work perfectly (e.g. doesn’t trigger the map zoom), but hopefully better than nothing. I’ll remove it if if it gets restored at the site level.

My camera doesn’t collect coordinates, so if I’m posting a photo from it, I need to manually enter them. I usually collect them in Gaia, or take a photo in the same place and use the Google Photos location tagging (I have a Pixel). If I’m uploading a photo form my phone, I don’t need to do that, bu…

If possible, I recommend this workflow for geotagging your observations. That being said, I made an issue for this , although I don’t know when it will be addressed.

[image] tiwane: I’m interested in why you’re manually entering coordinates - are you recording coordinates in the field? I’ve only ever recorded and entered coordinates this way, so am hoping the ability gets restored. I used to geotag my photos from the recorded coordinates first, but found …

Unable to update location with lat/long coordinates

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cthawley January 16, 2024, 6:17pm 19

I also would like this functionality. I often geolocate in separate software (maybe to access different map layers, like using OSM or Acme Mapper) and then copy over. It’s still possible to do this, just slower.

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Unable to update location with lat/long coordinates

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