You know you're seriously into iNat when

I recently obscured all the observations around my home for these reasons.

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Thank you for that! I understand. I will seriously consider obscuring observations made from my home. (Is there a fast way to do that, or does it have to be done one by one?)

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If you click on the “Edit Observations” button on your home screen you can use the batch edit settings to obscure the locations on a bunch of observations at one time.

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I do do this for a couple of locations, but with how many observations I have in those places, it has made a pretty much solid block in one.
Can someone tell the location from that solid block, or am I not understanding how it works?

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…someone in the forum links to a project and you spend hours (it’s a rabbit hole of sorts) joining and entering over a hundred observations with mandatory observation fields…

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…but that was true for me before iNat.

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Yes if they are unobscured they can simply zoom into the solid block and click any observation and get the exact coordinates from the observation page.

If you are talking about a solid block of obscured observations, since they randomly get placed within a certain polygon, then no (I have heard there are ways to get the location from an obscured observation but it’s not easy or easy to access that information)

Also: the mere fact that there is a solid block of observations at a particular location is going to allow some conclusions about where one spends a lot of one’s time, even if this does not necessarily tell someone the exact address of one’s home.

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Two of my photos from Tonga are featured on iNatguessr!

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Not a specifically naturalist consideration for approximately half the population. Wearers of clothing designed for women have been asking for usable pockets for decades, but many manufacturers appear to be convinced that we do not want or have no need for such niceties.

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when you begin planning out beach trips months in advance so you can be there for the best tides.

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Deleted personal instagram and also twitter to focus solely on iNaturalist!

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Tempted to do that just because after recent social media events.

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When you spend more time on iNat than on instagram.

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Literally the only times I look at Instagram are when the Cornell Lab does something and sends me an E-Mail. (i.e. #birdartweek2025.) iNat rules.

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When you’ve spent too long on iNat looking at insects, you walk outside and see a dog and think ‘weird, where are the mid legs?’

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Agree with the getting out of sites like insta. My last post there was an olive rock fish in march 2023.

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The heck with diamonds: cargo pants are a girl’s best friend! :grin:

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My daughter is a trained, highly-skilled sewer. Or was, in any case. She also has ‘customized’ many purchases (new and used) to include proper pockets for everyday use and has had her share of reactions over the slow awareness of the fashionverse to catch up with the pocket demands of today. The Good News is that it actually is starting to take place.

Minimally, the ability to safely and comfortably accommodate a phone, is finally starting to be recognized.

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I’m currently watching the iNat webinar on phenology (live). They mentioned the LA fires.

You know you’re seriously into iNat when you’re out DURING a fire in order to record phenology data (the BEFORE) on fire-adapted species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_adaptations

Post updated with link to webinar: https://youtu.be/57teTK5V5t0?si=M18n7DuOuCO47Zbg

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