Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Any Browser, Any, tried Firefox, Yandex URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://costarica.inaturalist.org/observations/221500925 (as an example) Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on compute…

[image] pisum: it looks like the boundaries may just be simplified. Correct, borders on iNat are simplified. If they were complex it would place a greater burden on iNat’s infrastructure. So boundaries are not always accurate, especially in areas where the border might be particularly curvy, …

[image] tiwane: If they were complex it would place a greater burden on iNat’s infrastructure. if it’s a complexity thing, why are the borders for US states much less simplified than the borders for other places?

You’d have to ask @loarie for details. All I know is that borders are simplified for infrastructure purposes.

What gorgeous photos! [image] annetteflottwell: But now, they are well separate in as two independent nations. I wonder if adjusting this might change anything then? [Screenshot 2024-08-16 9.05.56 AM]

you can’t directly adjust the Encompassing Places. you can only directly change the coordinates, which would then indirectly affect the Encompassing Places.

But also GADM’s administrative boundaries are just not good quality. I’ve written to them numerous times trying to get inaccurate boundaries fixed, but have never gotten any response (or changes). It seems to be a derelict project. And because their data is all under a custom license that doesn’t al…

This is a really indirect way to imply such a thing as “abundance,” but a region of Belgium (Wallonia) has an open season on foxes year-round while they have a limited open season on other furbearers. That implies to me that the department in charge of wildlife in Wallonia has deemed foxes “particul…

[image] zygy: OpenStreetMap’s boundary data is hit or miss (it’s not their focus) and difficult to extract. i’ve never done it, but i would think it should be relatively easy to extract, if you have a starting point for defining the administrative places that you want boundaries for. (you wou…

Fascinating. How can it say Belgium on the left and (çcorrectly) Wincrange, Diekirch , Lu on the right. Thank you @ItsMeLucy for pointing that out

You have a strange definition of “easy” :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Even just generating the list of boundaries to extract and mapping those names to the appropriate OpenStreetMap objects would probably take days of work. I looked into Wikidata’s shape files. It looks like a lot of them originat…

Wrong country in border region

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Interesting! (though getting way off topic, so I’ll leave it there.

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Wrong country in border region

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