Belated Apology and Some New Stuff 2015-03-12

First, an apology: a few weeks ago many iNat users received a marketing email from the California Academy of Sciences about upcoming lectures at the Academy, even though those users had not asked to receive such emails. This was because of an accident in which the emails we shared with our colleagues at the Academy for the holiday fundraiser were mistakenly left in their marketing system and used for this campaign. It was an honest mistake, but we nevertheless want to apologize to everyone who received this unsolicited message. We don't like spam either. We have since ensured that all iNat email addresses that were not previously in the Academy's system have been removed, so this will not happen again.

In better news, we have some additions to our maps to announce! We're now showing the boundaries of places where taxa have been listed on the taxon page maps, and we've added an optional GBIF layer to these maps as well. A LOT of you have requested the GBIF layer, so hopefully this is a step in the right direction. The GBIF grids are not clickable, but they give you a good idea of what GBIF has compiled about a species from museum records and observation networks like eBird and iNat. You guys can thank Patrick for this.

Protip: we don't have UI for this (yet) but you can visualize multiple species like this: http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/map?taxa=27824,27818,27826,135140. You can get the taxon IDs from the taxon page URLs. Looks like this (sorry about the legend):

Publicado el julio 13, 2020 03:24 TARDE por hannahsun99