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iNat captive/cultivated records #1699

Open Sam-Amy opened 4 months ago

Sam-Amy commented 4 months ago

iNaturalist imports currently exclude cultivated/saptured organisms (see #1104).

The BSBI have suggested that it would be useful to import these records for vascular plants, provided the captive/cultivated flag was retained in Indicia and records were masked from mapping, noting that "The BSBI's database has a flag ('do-not-map') to indicate records that are validly identified but which should not be mapped as part of wild distribution. Retaining such records is worthwhile as, in the larger scheme of things, 'garden' records can still be useful (e.g. to track the spread of future invasives, as insect food plants or vectors of disease, or just because they are interesting...)"

Is this something we might be able to consider @kitenetter, @sacrevert? At moment cultivated records won't be imported because they are by default not research grade, so presumably this wouldn't be straightforward.