Hopefully this isn’t already explained somewhere, I’ve searched the best I can but haven’t found anything. I’d like to go to map view under my observations and see the true locations of my observations. I tend to obscure all of my observations, and when I view my observations in map view I see the…

Thanks! Sounds like maybe this is an uncommon issue because I use iNaturalist a little bit differently than most. I may just have to deal with it for now.

In short, i draw a strong boundary between people choosing to obscure and auto obscure, because my take is when people are choosing to obscure, they wouldn’t have posted the data anyway. Auto obscure is forced on us from above, and makes sense in some cases, but is a very powerful and impactful thin…

I too really take issue with not being able to see my own records in certain views. This is especially true on the App when trying to relocate previously posted records. Perhaps there could be a switch implemented on the App (or other web map view) to just see your own records, with true coordinates…

Unfortunately I think the map tile caching issue is probably still the main bottleneck here so I’m not sure it’s possible. Happy to inquire, though.

OK, this might be something we can do. I’ll file an issue for it.

I have give or take almost 10,000 obscured observations. I’ve never used GIS.

I didn’t realise this was going to be a problem. I specifically sought out an endangered species in an area to map its locations and densities. I put up 53 observations expecting to better understand where the dense patches were and where the lone plants were and to be able to see where the older …

I found a workaround. By going to my Dashboard and selecting the Observations tab (in blue writing) and then using the search to narrow the results the map on the right of the screen shows the pins for their true locations. The map can be expanded to full screen.

I was going to suggest that as well You can narrow by taxon you want to look at at that time. If you have obscured obs in more than one area you can narrow by something like county. You can also add “obscured” as a search parameter. If that is still more than 200 (that was the limit right?) You can…

View true locations on maps for observations with trusted hidden coordinates

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Update: this likely won’t be implemented until we revamp the entire Explore page.

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