I’m trying to find workarounds to all box turtles being given taxon geoprivacy which made my neighborhood collection project useless. There are multiple questions below but I’m pretty sure they’re all related. I tried creating a traditional project. On this page for it
I can see true coordinate placemarkers for some observations but I can’t figure out why some are visible and others are not. These are both observations by me and IDed to genus and need IDs but one I can see there where it was observed and one I can’t; can anyone tell me why I can see one and not the other and/or how to be able to see all of them?
Also wondering if anyone can tell me why I can see some true placemarkers there but can’t see any markers at all when I go to observations from the project page, although oddly enough when I hover over a thumbnail, the little information window pops up where the obscured location should be shown.
You can see in the first link the blue pins indicate those 30 observations and in the second the pink pins indicate those displayed 200 observations.
All the other observations are cached on the map as orange and display as they would for any other user or someone logged out of iNat (e.g. obscured). As far as why, I think it’s this way due to a storage/performance limitation but someone else could probably explain that better than me.
There isn’t a way currently for you to view all your true locations at once within iNaturalist, hence the feature request linked above.
You could export your box turtle data and view it in something like Google Earth or QGIS.
Thank you for the explanations. One of the most common ways that I was using my observations was that when I got a new one, I’d spatially check for other BTs in that general area to see if it was a duplicate or new individual by comparing images in grid view and I can find no feasible way to do that now.
If you go to “Edit Observations” (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/dt_almquist) and zoom into the map, you can “redo search in map area” and you’ll be able to view the true locations of the first 200 observations in that map area. The thumbnail images are small there but you can increase your browser zoom to help with that.
Thank you again. I was intrigued by this but the ones in the original view that are obscured stay obscured when I zoom in and redo the search in the map. I can do a box search of my observations elsewhere and use the coordinates (eg below) from that url in the edit url, but that’s pretty laborious.