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iNaturalist iOS app
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Default to user's geolocation when location cannot be received from photos #644

Closed Chrischuck closed 1 year ago

Chrischuck commented 1 year ago

When location cannot be determined from the photo and the user attempts to manually set the location, default to user's location. Personally, when uploading images from my gopro, it was a bit annoying to have to move to my location every time. If this change seems reasonable, I would love to work on this and make a pr.

Image w/o geolocation IMG_2103

Map view defaults to 0,0 - would be nice if it defaulted to your current general area IMG_2104

Optilete commented 1 year ago

Relevant Feature request (both not iOS) : https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-current-location-default-in-android-app-instead-of-south-atlantic-ocean-0-0/23167 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/seek-grabs-current-location-if-photo-lacks-geolocation/5019

rainhead commented 1 year ago

Is this just to save yourself a tap of the compass button?

What makes sense to me is for the map to show any recent observations, so you can locate this one relative to them.

Regardless, the behavior should be the same across platforms.

alexshepard commented 1 year ago

We use github issues for technical issues that we know we're going to work on, not for open discussions of ideas. Once there is consensus in the forum on an issue, we might move it here.