Uploading batched observations! Apologies if this comes across as totally obvious or too long.
Say you’ve been out traveling and can’t timely upload your pix using your iPhone, or there’s no internet there, or can’t download from your fancy digital camera. To do batch uploads you must first download pix to your PC. Then go to iNaturalist on your PC. This is what folks have done, when you see they’ve just loaded up 50 observations in a matter of a few minutes! Metadata from your phone’s photos are uploaded automatically.
All your photos are now uploaded, each one a separate observation. Now, to combine the ones that belong together in the same observation.
a. Using drag-and-drop, combine your multiple photos per observation, dragging each one onto the one you want as the Default primary photo.
b. Note the 1st observation now shows a ¼ or 2/3 etc in the center; see right left arrows at the sides to scroll through them to confirm they are the right ones!
Add any notes to the Notes box.
a. In the case of mushrooms and what not, these can be important characteristics to include, such as “growing on oak stump”.
b. I’ll include geographic information such as “St. Marks Headwaters Greenway”, which is more specific than “Leon County” that’s selected by default when iNat cannot find a more specific “Place”. Simply copy & paste that note into all the other observations made there.
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I currently don’t have access to a PC. I have an iPhone and an iPad. When uploading, I can only do six at a time because it won’t let you pan to insert ID’s. I have lost hundreds if not thousands of observations. because of the limitations of an iPad.
Yes the iPad has limitations but I’ve never lost observations using it. I take my photos, then edit them, and later do the uploading. But I also only do perhaps a half dozen at a time anyway
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