Use Annotations to populate related fields for downloads

i think what you’re proposing here is messier than you think, and it’s unlikely to get you a result that you find acceptable any faster than the requests that you’ve already made, such as this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/data-users-what-are-your-use-cases-and-requests-for-exporting-data/2972/45. you seem to believe that iNat staff are unwilling to work on your previously expressed ideas and may have dismissed them. to me, it looks more like they are simply working on higher priorities at the moment.

in the meantime, there are plenty of ways to get the data that you’re looking for (provided in those previous threads). sure, it takes a few more steps to gather the data using those workarounds, but i don’t think it would be beyond the skills of most people who normally work with data.

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