Thank you @star3 for searching out and pointing to related feature requests.
We’ll see how this thread evolves – if it starts to become too redundant with the Feature Requests section of the forum, we might just close this and point folks there instead.
The circles and arrows would be a fantastic idea!
I also wish I could save locations because I do tend to return to the same spots often, and I don’t like walking around with GPS active.
The one thing i wish I could do on the site - convince the site to drop the ‘each observation is for a single individual rule’ and build a standard easy way to record frequency for those who wish to do so.
Yes, I wish I could save the coordinates for a location as well. Most of my photos are from my yard. Originally I chose “obscure” so my address didn’t show, but then that prevents my observations from showing in the project location I created.
Now I use the coordinates for a city park that is basically behind my house. That way I can keep the location open and not have my address show.
Bottomline for the location though. There should be a way NOT to have to obscure a location and yet NOT have a home address on display for the world to see.
The thing I’ve wished for for quite some time is a way to create “personal projects”, or collections, or whatever you want to call them. I’d like a collection for things observed in my yard, and things I observed on a trip to Costa Rica, and things I observed on a trip to Iceland. A collection for all the moths I’ve added to all the years of Moth Week. If I felt like doing a “square yard” project, I’d want a collection for that.
I’ve run across projects that it appears people have set up for this purpose, where only one person is adding to the project, but these concepts are really different things. One is for public participation, and the other is for personal organization. It always feels weird for me to come across one of those “personal” projects and see that it’s just for one person.
Is that what the life lists are for?
(I don’t really understand life lists)
Maybe something other than projects would be good, like collections or albums. Something just for the user’s personal use than a public project everyone can contribute to.
As someone who has set up one of those personal projects, I myself did not do it to leverage the project framework, but because it has by far the most accurate and stable species list and count tracking functionality. If lists worked properly and stayed in synch etc, I never would have done a project.
Search the explore tab for species I have not yet observed!
Looks like you have already created a Feature Request for that here:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-filter-option-in-user-interface-to-exclude-species-youve-observed/5790
The ability to crop photos in the upload screen would save me SO much time, especially when I have 5 different things in 1 photo, and have to crop and save 5 versions on my PC before I upload.
It’s easy to find the most commonly-observed species in an area, but I’d love to be able to see the LEAST observed species - both so I can look for more of them myself, and to check for erroneous IDs of things not actually found in the area.
In similar vein as above, would like to be able to see what organisms are in the range map of an area but have not yet been observed there.
How is number 3 different than going to the checklist for a place and choosing unobserved. For instance
https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/7219-Ontario-Check-List?q=&view=photo&taxon=&observed=f&threatened=any&establishment_means=any&occurrence_status=not_absent&rank=species&taxonomic_status=active&commit=Filter
The challenge of course is maintaining the checklists, but those are certainly the most complete accounting of species distribution the site has.
Number 2 sounds really interesting and speaks right to my competitive nature :) I like it!
Is there a way to do that on the mobile app? That’s what I use to upload/post.
No, not on the website either. But on the website explore function in species view so long as you are sufficiently filtered be it by taxonomy, geography, date whatever to be below 500 species, you can just scroll to the bottom of that page
If you are referring to the ability to create and select pinned locations, no, I think that is only currently available as part of the web uploader. Might be worth a feature request to ask for similar functionality in the mobile apps.
Yes, sorry, I meant pinned locations. There are a lot of very noticeable differences between the mobile and desktop apps, why is that?
I can’t speak for the developers, but I think it is safe to say that there is a whole lot more functionality on the website (= desktop app) than could ever be packed into the mobile app and have it remain remotely usable as such. So it is streamlined to the most needed functions, which tend to center around capturing and posting observations real-time, and basic searches and interactions with other observations on the site. But it never hurts to ask for something new!
That said, I’ll just mention for general information that the Forum is currently not accepting new feature requests specific to the iPhone app IF the feature is already available on the Android app, as updates to the iPhone app are already a priority:
Didn’t know you could do that - thanks! I revise that wish to 'Make it EASIER to…" ;)
I’m not too familiar with checklists, to be honest. Are they automatically created, or user-generated? The one for my Northern California county shows ostriches, for some bizarre reason.
https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/2062-Sonoma-Check-List?commit=Filter&establishment_means=any&observed=f&occurrence_status=not_absent&page=1&q=&rank=species&taxon=&taxonomic_status=active&threatened=any&view=photo
They are in fact both, they can be enabled to auto generate based on observations, but users can also manually add things.