What should represent a 'range' for a species in iNaturalist

The problem here, as with so much of dealing with observation fields, is that there are multiple ones all doing the same thing. There is ‘tag name’, ‘placeholder’, a bunch of ‘holding bins’ etc.

Ideally they would be centralized under one, but I guess using even one of them is a good start.

The whole issue of standardizing them has been extensively discussed such as
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/standardize-and-clean-up-observation-fields/363/17
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observation-field-standardization-wiki/380

The end result, the site is not going to do it.

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