List new place restrictions to yellow banner at https://www.inaturalist.org/places/new

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List new place restrictions to yellow banner at https://www.inaturalist.org/places/new #4069

Open tiwane opened 7 months ago

tiwane commented 7 months ago

At https://www.inaturalist.org/places/new the only restriction we list is "You can only create three places per day." but there are at least two more that I can think of: area and number of observation. We should add those to the list:

A new place cannot be larger than X sq meters (X sq mi) or approximately the area of the US state of Texas.
A new place cannot contain more than 200,000 observations (including casual observations).

tiwane commented 3 months ago

It would also be good to let people know that their new place may not populate with observations for a little while. So something like

It may take several hours, or up to a day, for observations to appear in your new place.

(or whatever time range is realistic here)

pleary commented 1 week ago

Related to #3712