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iNaturalist OS grid references missing

Submitted by Chrisbirder@bl… on

I'm receiving quite a few records where the OS grid reference is missing. Going in to edit the record, an accurate spatial reference is provided, but this can't be changed and saved to an OS grid reference. This results in a missed record. Is there a way to change the location to an OS grid reference so the records can be ssaved?

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Submitted by iRecord support on Wed, 30/10/2024 - 12:21

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Hi Chris, some of the iNaturalist records can end up with very imprecise grid references, but I haven't seen examples where the grid reference is missing. Can you give some record ID numbers where this is the case?

Submitted by Chrisbirder@bl… on Wed, 04/12/2024 - 06:37

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Here are a few:

39035765, 39035764, 39032741. 

Submitted by syrphus3 on Thu, 20/02/2025 - 14:26

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I'm not the verifier for these but they came up while I was browsing IOM records. They belong to recorder 'corvidenjoyer3'. Here are some of the record numbers but there are more listed: 40246565, 40245548, 40245233 & 40242882 amongst others. 

Submitted by DavidHowdon on Sun, 02/03/2025 - 12:12

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Had a look at 39035765 I wonder if it is to do with the big range on that record (it's accurate to about 26km so I wonder if it is just cutting across so many different grid squares the system cannot even take a guess)>