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Location mapping inaccurate? #441

Open tiwane opened 6 years ago

tiwane commented 6 years ago

A user wrote in saying he was careful to put the locations for his observations exactly where he saw them, next to the trail. But when he saves the observation, it looks like the pin gets moved a bit. For example, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13130344

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I'm not sure if this is just a difference in map layers, but probably merits looking into.

naturalistcharlie commented 6 years ago

is the first image from oblique 'birds eye' type air photos? I have found that those never line up right with other layers, even in places other than iNat (such as Google maps). Just a thought.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 6:33 PM, tiwane notifications@github.com wrote:

A user wrote in saying he was careful to put the locations for his observations exactly where he saw them, next to the trail. But when he saves the observation, it looks like the pin gets moved a bit. For example, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13130344

[image: img_4907] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15896181/41260485-7af3373a-6d8c-11e8-97e5-f0a5ae402d3b.PNG

[image: img_4906] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/15896181/41260495-84b5f5e6-6d8c-11e8-9065-eb99713b44a3.PNG

I'm not sure if this is just a difference in map layers, but probably merits looking into.

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