When you select a country as the location in an iNat search, the area searched follows that country’s border – even for countries with quite complex shapes, like Greece. However, if you select Turkey, the resulting map area is a crude oblong, which of course necessarily includes parts of several nei…

Yes, it’s the new name that’s causing the issue. When Google returns results, it gives iNat the name Türkiye, but iNat can’t find anything when it searches its own database with that name. [image] [image]

I’m assuming that when you refer to an “iNat Search” you are talking about using Explore? I also see the box, though you can see the true borders if you go to the iNat place for Turkey: https://www.inaturalist.org/places/turkey Maybe it’s something to do with the name change from Turkey to Turkiye? …

Yes, by Search I mean Explore (issue only happens on the website; it works fine in the app). [image] cthawley: you can see the true borders if you go to the iNat place for Turkey That’s even more curious, so it seems “Turkey” is just not linked with the proper place in the system then. […

[image] DanielAustin: When you select a country as the location in an iNat search, the area searched follows that country’s border – even for countries with quite complex shapes, like Greece This is not the case for me on the iNaturalist website (observations page). When I select Greece in th…

How odd! Greece and Bulgaria work just fine for me. I’d need to know more about how this works behind the scenes to have some idea why different users are getting different countries coming up as bounding boxes. (Maybe it depends on the language you are using iNat in?) Hopefully someone with some ex…

[image] DanielAustin: However, if you select Turkey, the resulting map area is a crude oblong, which of course necessarily includes parts of several neighbouring countries. It’s the only country I have seen without a more precisely defined border. Is there a reason for this? No problem here: …

Sounds like this is the old issue of inaturalist preferring Google places over inat names. The solution is to ignore the Location search box on the website and instead use a place filter, like described e.g. here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/incorrect-county-boundary-for-jefferson-davis-ms/26825 …

You can find them directly in the « Places of interest » menu at the top of the map. [iNat TR places of interest]

A similar issue exists for Czechia. When typing Czech into the location box I am being offered Czech Republic and its variations (including Czechia if I type it fully) “Powered by Google” which all only lead to a rectangle. The correct iNat location Czechia is only available through the filters. Ed…

Does anyone know if there is a feature request around this issue yet? Rather than workarounds such as The solution is to ignore the Location search box on the website and instead use a place filter it seems to me there should be a more permanent solution. In the previous discussion on this topic…

Why doesn't Turkey have a proper map outline?

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t_e_d November 19, 2023, 5:06pm 7

No problem here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=7094&subview=map
GR iNat

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Why doesn't Turkey have a proper map outline?

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