In the process of cleaning up some of the casual observations of lizards I stumbled across a cluster of observations in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. Turns out these were nearly all casual observations. Turns out there are around 7000 casual observations in at this one site with over 2…

Helping with these is mentioned in useful tasks for nonexperts: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/useful-inaturalist-tasks-for-non-experts-wiki/35034 A standard comment and link to help clean these up is on iNat frequently used responses: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses#addid While 7,000…

I know this location shows on the map when I post a screenshot from a video. I use iOS iPhone, my only internet connection. It’s listed as no location on the observation page. Easy to relocate when I remember to do so.

to be more precise, these observation do have a location and it’s the default 0,0. When you’re uploading an observation and you open the map to set the location, the pointer is set by default on 0,0 waiting to be moved. Getting this operation wrong can result in confirming 0,0 as the actual location…

What becomes of observations lacking location?

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cthawley October 7, 2023, 4:56pm 3

Previous posts that address this:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observations-with-locations-at-0-0/3475
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/etiquette-for-observations-with-locations-at-0-0/6776

Topic		Replies	Views
Observations with locations at 0,0 General	21	4100	September 5, 2019
Etiquette for observations with locations at 0,0 General	5	696	September 26, 2019
Observations Defaulting to Coordinates (0,0) Bug Reports	5	1024	October 19, 2019
Automatically deal with obs whose coordinates are 0, 0 Feature Requests	27	2882	October 5, 2019
Finding inaccurate coordinates General brainstorm	6	872	June 29, 2020

What becomes of observations lacking location?

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