Ref: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=121212 This place outline, Deer Lakes Park PA seems to have been delineated a bit hastily, putting it politely. The actual park boundaries are correctly shaded in green on the map layer and can be corroborated by the county provided map: https…

Done! https://www.inaturalist.org/places/deer-lakes-park [image] theyeti: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=121212 Because of the new restrictions on places , it wasn’t as simple as changing the polygon. I created the KML file on Google My Maps because I could trace the Googl…

The name is also misspelled. I’d be OK fixing things, but it would be good to reach out to the creator and ask them if it’s OK (or if they wanted to fix it). It doesn’t look like you can flag places, which is what I would think would be the best route of action. https://www.inaturalist.org/places/d…

Looks like the creator was last active about 9 months ago, so probably best to PM them (on the chance that they have messages going to email). But if you don’t hear anything back after a while, I think it’s fair to edit as this is pretty obviously incorrect. It’s also worth noting that it looks like…

@thomaseverest @cthawley Thanks both of you, I’ll message the creator and respond here if I do/don’t hear anything back.

[image] theyeti: I’ll message the creator and respond here if I do/don’t hear anything back. If you don’t hear back, it might just be easier to create a new place with a more accurate boundary. You don’t need “PA” in the place name since the place should have PA as a parent (which the current…

[image] thomaseverest: It doesn’t look like you can flag places Something like that is needed, yes, but unlike taxa, places are not managed by curators, so flagging a place would be like so many trees falling in the woods :-)

Oh yeah, easier certainly-- although there is a big warning on the create places UI about how they slow down the site, so I tried this approach first

Haven’t had any response to a message. @thomaseverest do you mind taking care of it when you have time?

Thank you! I didn’t realize part of the new approach to Places was removing the polygon tool, but as the discussion notes…it wasn’t super easy to draw complex places at all (at least last time I used it)

[image] trscavo: [image] thomaseverest: It doesn’t look like you can flag places Something like that is needed, yes, but unlike taxa, places are not managed by curators, so flagging a place would be like so many trees falling in the woods :-) Places can be managed by curators (as happe…

What's the appropriate way to get a place boundary updated?

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pisum August 5, 2021, 3:47am 12

just for future reference, since the place exists in OSM, you could probably just extract/export those OSM boundaries (if the park’s administrators don’t offer a more authoritative source for boundaries).

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What's the appropriate way to get a place boundary updated?

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