ahospers's Journal

The current Batch Edit tool, while clunky, will do this. Edit a batch,
click "Batch operations," choose the "count" field, and apply the
value.

If you use http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/upload, iNat will
also add observation fields from EXIF tags with an "=" in them, so if
you add tags to your photos like "count=5" that will also work
(incidentally it should also work for taxa, e.g. eating=Homo sapiens
for a photo of an organism eating a human).

o one could possibly use the "User Comment" Exif Tag and add something like
count=5, Insect Nectar Plant=Eriogonum fasciculatum, Elevation=3000 uld like to be able to upload a csv file where the Count field could be included in a record. I use a program for data collection which includes a count field, so it is currently a lot of work to upload a large number of records and then manually wade through them all adding a count to those with > 1 in that count fiel

Further to my first request, I notice that the GPS Accuracy, while it is a standard data entry value for iNaturalist via the App or geotagged photo upload, is not supported in CSV upload. Similarly, Annotations are not supported and are a manual entry only. These seem like significant oversights to me and I would request that all of the standard observation fields be included in the base import csv format. In addition, I have found, through an anonymous tipster, that the csv upload format can be "customized" via a "hidden" process by first creating a Project and specifying custom Fields in the Project, which will then generate a custom template which will include the specified Fields. However, it would seem to be much more flexible and universal if the CSV header row was simply used as the template by default and this feature was documented. While field data entry using the App is fun and useful for occasional observations where a data connection is readily available, it is far too cumbersome and battery and data intensive for serious field data collection where a dat connection is available and extremely tedious and punishing when no data connection is available.

An intelligent alternative which would satisfy all such issues in a flexible, conventional and well defined way would be to support JSON format which would support better serious data entry options than the current App can provide.

iNaturalist is evolving nicely and has now become a very useful system to share all of my most significant natural history observations with photos. I am looking forward to the time when it will be feasible to upload all of my significant observations without photos and my more casual, but still valuable observations with or without photo

Mushroom Observer Import
This tool will import your observations from Mushroom Observer to iNat. You'll need to get a Mushroom Observer API key from http://mushroomobserver.org/account/api_keys

Enter your Mushroom Observer API key
Test

Enter your Mushroom Observer API key
Import
How This Works
iNat will import all of your MO observations, doing its best to translate MO's data model to our own. The testing tool above will give you a sense for what your imported data will look like on iNat. It should not import the same record twice, so if you run this multiple times, don't expect a record that's already been imported to change. It will store the MO URL as an observation field so you can always refer back to the original.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/moimport
Some caveats
Names will not allways match up: iNat will do its best to match MO names with iNat taxa, but it's not always going to be perfect. If we can't find a matching taxon, we'll just add a "placeholder" and you'll need to look for taxon-less observations to correct them.
iNat will use the MO consensus name, not your name. Getting your naming from the MO API seems to be impossible.
Observations not from collection location will be skipped: iNat is for recording observations from where and when they were observed in the wild.
You are the photo copyright holder: iNat does not support uploading photos by other people. It will assume and state publicly that you are the copyright holder for all images. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/moimport

If you check "yes" for "Based on the evidence, can the Community ID still be confirmed or improved?" in the Data Quality Assessment section, your observation will go back to "needs ID" without singling out any person as unreliable.
That's the best way to do it. You could also turn off community ID for just that one observation and click 'no' for can't be improved. That should keep it at genus I thin
Another option is to add, say a family or genus-level ID rather than your species guess initially. You could mention what species you think it is in a comment. I often do that even when I have a hunch as to what the species is, to reduce the problem you mentioned.
Another option is to add, say a family or genus-level ID rather than your species guess initially. You could mention what species you think it is in a comment. I often do that even when I have a hunch as to what the species is, to reduce the problem you mentioned.
hat you are essentially saying is you are uncomfortable with people guessing to validate your guesses. The answer is to not guess in the first place. If you are not confident in a species ID, then enter it at genus or family etc. If someone follows that up with a fin

-- MAVERICK -- FALSE
For instance: wynand_uys identified an observation as "Lithobates areolatus" and it is not withdrawn, but the community ID is now "Animal" (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10786321)

How can I filter for all instances where there is a current ID posted of "Lithobates areolatus" where the community ID is not "Lithobates areolatus" ?

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but I know you can find observations where you are considered a "maverick":

https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=tonyrebelo&category=maverick

I see there is also a "current" parameter.

In fact, it is on that screen. Exactly what I want is:

https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=tonyrebelo&current=false

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Bij naturgucker zijn de fotos 10MP. Enig idee hoe ze dat doen ? Ik weet wel dat ze elke seconde 60 fotos op vragen om de response (cache) een beetje actief te houden ,de ng.de fotos in de cache te houden. De 1 MP fotos van wrn.nl vallen dan toch wat tegen ? (1. Ga naar https://naturgucker.de/natur.dll/$/, 2. Zoek een fotos, bijv van Madeira,
3. Rechtermuisknop URLhttps://farm5.staticflickr.com/…/32430079898_d48b711470_b.j… 4. Pak het Photo ID uit de link en volg https://www.bram.us/…/my-priceless-flickr-tip-how-to-find-…/
5. Plak dit weer in http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=32430079898
6. Je komt dan weer ophttps://www.flickr.com/photos/12639178@N07/32430079898/)

I was also wondering what the limits are...
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/23753693?size=original
seems the limits are still 2000 pixels
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/23753693

GanCW, yes, those limits are still in place.
Andre, the metadata for the photo just shows the metadata that was embedded when the photo was uploaded, so if the photo was ,larger than 2048x2048, it will show the original size there, even though the photo available online has a maximum 2048x2048 size.
Tony you just can't upload more than 20 MB in a single request..." Am I right in thinking one can have more than 20MB of images in an observation if one uploads the images in stages? (Not sure exactly what 'request' means: does dragging and dropping 3 images onto an obs = 1 request or 3 requests?).
"we also resize every observation photo to a max of 2048x2048 px," I think that equals roughly 4Megs.

here is a page at https://www.inaturalist.org/flags which lists all the unresolved flags, but the filter options don't seem to provide a way to list just the flags I have raised. There also doesn't seem to be way to filter for curation flags, which is what I am mainly interested in. Are there any url query parameters that could help with this?

Another thing that would be useful is a simple way to list all of the existing curation flags for a given taxon. I can use a url hack like https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/12345/flags, but

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the queue of a particular user's bulk uploads that aren't labeled yet, and I'd like to skip over them because the person may be working on them themselves later. Is there a string I can include in the search url to omit their observations for the moment?

Starter url example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=unknown
Example url when you are *positively* filtering for a user: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?iconic_taxa=unknown&user_id=questagame

e.g. if you want to ID observations in DC but not from me (user ID 7580), you'd use https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?verifiable=true&page=1&place_id=5&not_user_id=7580

There are a few ways to find someone's user ID, but the one I go to is to the header search, type their name, and then click on their profile from that and you'll see their user nu

-- MAVERICK -- FALSE
For instance: wynand_uys identified an observation as "Lithobates areolatus" and it is not withdrawn, but the community ID is now "Animal" (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10786321)

How can I filter for all instances where there is a current ID posted of "Lithobates areolatus" where the community ID is not "Lithobates areolatus" ?

Maybe not exactly what you are looking for, but I know you can find observations where you are considered a "maverick":

https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=tonyrebelo&category=maverick

I see there is also a "current" parameter.

In fact, it is on that screen. Exactly what I want is:

https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?user_id=tonyrebelo&current=false