I’m talking taxa that are like continents apart, so there’s not even the slightest chance of a range extension. It would greatly benefit the accuracy of IDs if all these misleading IDs were automatically filtered out or at least give some warning that “this taxon is similar but unlikely to occur in…

Because the site does not have a viable means to either store or even get entered reliable precise level range information on hundreds of thousands, or even millions of species. The opposite is done, species documented as nearby (via inat observations which is far from a complete dataset) are high…

Hi @atronoxychump , you can see staff responses on this topic here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/better-use-of-location-in-computer-vision-suggestions/915

Why aren't taxa that are out of range automatically removed from suggestions?

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atronoxychump December 28, 2020, 4:12pm 4

Thank you both for your responses and the link. Hopefully this can be improved soon

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Why aren't taxa that are out of range automatically removed from suggestions?

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