I just visited a town of under 500 and took some cool pictures, should I kust lie about the location to the nearest big city or just leave it.

Do not deliberately falsify your data, please. Currently on iNat only a small portion of users are active IDers. (Most of them don’t limit their IDs to their city, btw, so living in a small town shouldn’t affect this much.) That means that IDers have a huge amount of observations to go through. It …

Just leave the accuracy as good as possible, and have patience.

What’s your account name? I can ID your observations if you want. Changing location will mean that your observation will be marked “Casual” grade for location inaccurate.

I took a picture of some type of bass, so i called it basses, waited a month and got nothing, changed the location to nashville and got an Id immediately, is there anything wrong with changing it?

An accurate location is important for your observation. Some species (even some of our Southeastern U.S. bass) require a pretty well-established location. Sometimes identifications are quick, other times they are slow. But remember, none of it is set in stone. A new hybrid between two different spec…

You might get an incorrect ID by changing the location. Some species are easy to ID to genus, but have many similar looking species that are hard to ID when their ranges overlap. That’s often a reason that observations don’t get ID’d, because the ID requires seeing subtle or hard to photograph speci…

Please don’t use an inaccurate location. If you’re using an inaccurate location, it’s also the duty of other naturalists to tag it as such which disqualifies it from research grade. There are a lot of people who will eventually ID stuff taken in rural locales. Just be patient.

I have used number 7 a number of times and have had quite a bit of success. Most of the top iders are happy to help. Those that aren’t just ignore your requests to take a look. I don’t do this unless the observation has been up awhile without attention. Know also that some species will just never re…

When I am ID-ing on iNat, I filter for the entire state of Ohio, which is where I live. I would bet that there some people filter to county or even country, depending on their effort, expertise, and the amount of observations in that region. Sometimes identifications take time. I’ve had some suppos…

What should I do if no one identifies my observations,

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bouteloua July 10, 2025, 5:58am 10

there are some nice suggestions here https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-get-identifications-for-your-observations/26429

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What should I do if no one identifies my observations,

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