In this example - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=dpegsy&verifiable=any The map shows only a couple of plants in India, but they are mostly in the US as can be seen by their list and by clicking on them. When you hover over the US plants they do not pop up on the map …

this is not a bug go to one of the US observations, eg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/307452981 , and check the accuracy value. You’ll see in that example, the value is 358.97 km. Any records with an accuracy value of 30-ish km or greater are not displayed on maps in Explore EDIT: found t…

I’m experiencing the same bug in Chrome too, but only for your username.

That’s interesting. But then I guess what about the person reporting it is occurring for my observations? as I don’t have any observations that are of low positional accuracy.

I think they mistook the link you posted for your own observations

Hmm… the accuracy may be related to the fact that the observations are obscured. When you look at the individual observation it does show a marker so it’s very counterintuitive that it does show it when viewed closely but not when viewed from a large distance…

it’s not related to the obscuration, the maximum accuracy associated with obscuration is a bit over 30 km. In these cases, the observer has added that accuracy value to their records and then also obscured them as a separate thing, but it’s the former causing them not to map

I wonder what would be the pros and cons of removing this constraint so values of low accuracy also show at least when viewed from a distance (maybe a lot of low-accuracy results are perhaps not going to be enormously out) - or if nothing else when viewing say an individual because you view an indiv…

US/India observations, only Indian ones showing on map

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US/India observations, only Indian ones showing on map

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