Launching of the Oregon iMapInvasives Collector project

Hello iNaturalists,

You may have heard that there is a new type of Project available on iNaturalist called a Collector. These types of projects automatically add observations that match a set of criteria, for example, observations in Oregon of invasive species.

While our current traditional iNat Oregon iMapInvasives project has been a great success and a very important source of invasive species reports from the iNaturalist community, this project requires iNat users to manually add matching reports to the project. The sheer volume of matching observations (several THOUSAND waiting to be added!) has become more than I (or any of our project members) could hope to catch up with. So it certainly makes sense to look into the Collector option!

I am building an Oregon iMap Collector project as it seems like the Collector option is the way to go for our project. There will be a transition period as I need to manually add our hundreds of tracked invasive species to the Collector, and also make sure the functionality is worth the trade-offs from using a traditional project. Feel free to check out the Collector and offer feedback or insights on our iNat projects!

As always, I appreciate your reports and interest, and these iNaturalist sightings really are a huge benefit to resource managers and researchers of invasive species!

Best,

Lindsey

Publicado el octubre 3, 2018 05:44 TARDE por wisel