Apologies if this is in the wrong subforum or inappropriate! I have been working on a project required for graduation where I use iNaturalist and herbarium data to compare and contrast the floral composition of the Fabaceae within New Jersey. While I’ve used photos from iNaturalist (if they have th…

If you’re using any GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS, Google Earth, etc) you can download the CSV file of the relevant observations and display them in your GIS software. This is the best option in terms of ensuring that you have a relevant and easy to read map that displays just what you want it to in t…

in regards to plotting the points, you can also do it in R if you use it. This is a recent figure I made (using iNat data) for a paper I’m writing at the moment: [butter2] it’s pretty easy to change the map limits to reflect your area of interest instead of the whole world

I agree with @earthknight that the most flexible solution will be to download the data and plot it yourself in some kind of software, either GIS or R as @thebeachcomber noted. However, if you want a “quick and dirty” solution you can just screenshot the maps. To cite a screenshotted map, I would us…

If you’re comparing and contrasting, don’t forget the Compare tool: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/compare as an alternative to the Observations page.

I’m creating some very simple heat maps from iNat’s Explore page for some current research. I start with the map of observations, but then to unclutter the image, I choose the “Map” layer instead of “Satellite”, and then go to Full Screen view (button to the left of the map). When I have the right…

Thank you all for all the great replies!

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lera February 17, 2021, 11:13pm 6

There may be RG observations that haven’t made it out to GBIF because of the observation license used by the observer, so worth a cross-check to see how much that affects the results.

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