{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183/events","html_url":"https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183","id":185861312,"number":1183,"title":"Set 'Does the location seem accurate?' to no when Accuracy: > 5,000m","user":{"login":"loarie","id":598026,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/598026?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie","html_url":"https://github.com/loarie","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/loarie/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":167831806,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/labels/improvements","name":"improvements","color":"84b6eb","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-10-28T07:58:50Z","updated_at":"2016-10-28T11:36:15Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Currently, my 'outside of atlas' experiments are revealing alot of obs out in the middle of the ocean but with huge uncertainties that do intersect land. I'd like to exclude these from the analysis (preferably by having them be casual).\r\n\r\nSince the iNat Standard places have a coastal buffer of 0.05 degrees (which is ~5.5km at the equator) any observation with an accuracy < 5km that overlaps land will always have its center within the coastal buffer (and thus won't raise any 'outside of atlas' flags)\r\n\r\nI propose that obs with accuracy >5km are automatically flagged as 'Does the location seem accurate?' = no. We currently keep observations with IDs of family or coarser from becoming RG, having observations with accuracies >5km be casual would follow similar logic (e.g. too coarse to be 'useful').\r\n\r\ncounter-argument would be that obs with accuracy >5km are still useful for some purposes\r\ncounter-counter-argument would be that you can still find them in the casual bin\r\n\r\nthoughts @kueda?\r\n\r\ne.g. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1513176:\r\n<img width=\"385\" alt=\"screen shot 2016-10-28 at 12 51 23 am\" src=\"https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/598026/19799097/9ec72f32-9ca9-11e6-8f82-ad3faeaa15f7.png\">"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/comments/256898956","html_url":"https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183#issuecomment-256898956","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183","id":256898956,"user":{"login":"naturalistcharlie","id":7171475,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7171475?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie","html_url":"https://github.com/naturalistcharlie","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/naturalistcharlie/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-10-28T11:36:14Z","updated_at":"2016-10-28T11:36:14Z","body":"I strongly support this move. Those observations mess with y beloved range\nmaps :)\n\nOn Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Scott Loarie <notifications@github.com>\nwrote:\n\n> Currently, my 'outside of atlas' experiments are revealing alot of obs out\n> in the middle of the ocean but with huge uncertainties that do intersect\n> land. I'd like to exclude these from the analysis (preferably by having\n> them be casual).\n>\n> Since the iNat Standard places have a coastal buffer of 0.05 degrees\n> (which is ~5.5km at the equator) any observation with an accuracy < 5km\n> that overlaps land will always have its center within the coastal buffer\n> (and thus won't raise any 'outside of atlas' flags)\n>\n> We currently keep observations with IDs of family or coarser from becoming\n> RG, having observations with accuracies >5km be casual wouldn't be too much\n> of a stretch.\n>\n> counter-argument would be that obs with accuracy >5km are still useful for\n> some purposes\n> counter-counter-argument would be that you can still find them in the\n> casual bin\n>\n> thoughts @kueda <https://github.com/kueda>?\n>\n> e.g. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1513176:\n> [image: screen shot 2016-10-28 at 12 51 23 am]\n> <https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/598026/19799097/9ec72f32-9ca9-11e6-8f82-ad3faeaa15f7.png>\n>\n> —\n> You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.\n> Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub\n> <https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1183>, or mute the\n> thread\n> <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AG1tk714-uDyiRWYEsbxGME1LhEWBF72ks5q4as7gaJpZM4KjLNr>\n> .\n>\n\n\n\n-- \n============================\nCharlie Hohn\nMontpelier, Vermont\n"}}
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