iNaturalist grid references not displaying correctly

Submitted by Tristan Bantock on

Has any one had problems with grid references for iNaturalist records? Some are displaying incorrectly and the problem is affecting longer grid references eg 8 figures.

The issue was apparent as I have records showing in the sea, which is not a typical habitat for shieldbugs...

For example, the grid reference TQ40910965 is displaying more than 20km south of its true location in Lewes.

Many thanks

Tristan

 

 

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Submitted by iRecord support 3 on Tue, 09/01/2024 - 12:25

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There was a short period on 14-15th Nov, following a server move, where the spatial functions built into the database had an incorrect calculation for imported iNaturalist records, resulting in the kind of offset you see. These were re-calculated, but your example has highlighted that there may have been some existing iNaturalist records updated during that time where this has also occured; we will investigate and fix in due course. Apologies for the inconvenience.