This is in the last project journal post but we have had a lot of new members join since that post and there are still some older members who have not done this. You are more than welcome to add your own observations, but this makes it so that you do not have to.

To “trust” the project, please go to https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fnai-tracked-species and click on “Your Membership” a little ways down towards the right. If you would change your private/obscured visibility setting to the top choice of "Yes, no matter who adds the observation to the project", this will allow us to access true coordinates for our conservation work.

Thank you for helping us with our conservation efforts and please feel free to message me @davealmquist if you have any questions or concerns.

If you are tagged in this post, then you have observations in the project that we cannot use the true coordinates of. This is a traditional project rather than a collection project and, while traditional projects have some advantages over collection projects, one drawback is that observations have to be manually added to the project. We realized from project member feedback that it was a lot to ask for members to have to add their observations to the project on a regular basis and we have found a way that we can add them for you. The only problem is that your project membership settings must be configured to allow us to access the true coordinates of your observations. If you would help us by checking your project settings, we would really appreciate it.

To “trust” the project, please go to https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fnai-tracked-species and click on “Your Membership” a little ways down towards the right. If you would change your private/obscured visibility setting to the top choice of "Yes, no matter who adds the observation to the project", this will allow us to access true coordinates for our conservation work.

Thank you very much and sorry to pester you.

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I have a favor to ask project members. I recently updated the list of taxa associated with this project and also did some checks within iNaturalist and found that there are member observations in iNaturalist that are obscured, either by users or by taxon geoprivacy or both, but are not in our project. If you are tagged below and you could batch add your observations, and check if you trusted the project while doing so, that would help us greatly by giving us access to unobscured coordinates for these records. Batch adding was not straightforward for me and I hope that the below instructions will help. I don’t believe that this can be done from the app, but only using a browser. (It is possible on my android phone using Chrome, but the app kept trying to take over and so it was a pain.)

Thank you very much, I’m sorry for any inconvenience, and please feel free to email me at dalmquist@fnai.fsu.edu if the below is not clear. (I could not figure out how to add screenshots and am happy to email you a Word doc with them.)

Go to https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fnai-tracked-species

click “Add from Your Observations” in grayish "Members" box.

This should bring up a list of your observations that match the project list. Click "Batch edit" in the upper left, then Select All, then Add to Project, and last the Add button next to “FNAI tracked species”.

To “trust” the project, please back to https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fnai-tracked-species and click on “Your Membership” a little ways down towards the right.
If your private/obscured visibility setting is "No", please change it to other than that, and preferably the top choice of "Yes, no matter who adds the observation to the project."

Thanks; this should allow us access to many more unobscured records which will help with our conservation efforts!
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If you are tagged in this, you may not have trusted the FNAI tracked species project. (We’re sorry for any inconvenience and/or if you view this as spam, but it’s not possible for us to find out for sure what your settings are and this is important to our conservation efforts.) The reason that this is an issue is that some observations for taxa having “taxon geoprivacy” have been given a >29 kilometer positional accuracy, even if you have not personally obscured the locations, which makes them much less useful for our purposes. If you would change your setting as detailed below, we will be able to obtain accurate coordinates from your observations, although please note that this will not make them display accurately on the map for anyone except FNAI staff, so no one else will be able to deduce the true coordinates. If you would be willing to help us out with this by checking your setting for this and changing if needed, we would really appreciate it, as this will greatly improve the value of your observations for our conservation work.

From here
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fnai-tracked-species

click on “Your Membership” a little ways down towards the right.

If your private/obscured visibility setting is "No", please change it to other than that, and preferably the top choice of "Yes, no matter who adds the observation to the project."

That should be all that’s needed. Please feel free if you have any questions and thank you very much!

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This project was created by the Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) to give iNat users an easier way to share their observations of species we track with us. A complete list of species we track is available here: http://www.fnai.org/PDF/Element_tracking_summary_current.pdf If you try to add an observation and have problems please contact Frank Price, the curator, and FNAI data manger at fprice@fnai.fsu.edu. Thanks!