I’m not sure this is what you’re looking for, but maybe? @Loopy30 It’d allow you to see on your mobile phone what you haven’t already observed at a park or preserve that has been observed there by others.
Unobserved within Project - Use this Instead
You can click on user and project name to search for and change the user/project. The observed/unobserved is a toggle. The species name, when clicked takes you to a grid of OBS.
No, that example is essentially the “not_observed_by_user” filtered by the geographical boundaries of the park.
What I am looking for is the generation of a list of all those species observed by all users in a wider area (eg. county/province/state), but not yet seen by any (not just individual) user in a specific area (eg. park/project/city etc). Preferably, this list would be ranked by total observations.
I would look at some of the posts in these discussions:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/way-to-see-unobserved-species-for-project/38200
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/a-query-that-will-find-unobserved-species-in-a-smaller-place-that-exists-inside-a-larger-place/44807
For example, this is the compare tool, showing the bird species seen in Ottawa, but not seen in the Petrie Island project.
Oh, actually here’s another option that I don’t think was linked in those topics – this example shows animals see in Ottawa, but not seen in the Petrie Island project.
The reason it’s only listing animals is because there is a limit of 10000 species and Ottawa has a little more than that. But the limit to the compare tool I showed above is 500 species, so 10000 is comparatively quite large.
This is useful, thanks. The 500 spp. limit was quite limiting…
