1. Advanced features iNaturalist
Session 3.
Advanced features iNaturalist

2. The iPhone and Android app
The app is a convenient way to record and share observations.
Just download from the App Store or Google play depending on your device – it is FREE!

3. The Android app tutorial
Pull down on the list to “sync” your data with the website. You’ll need to be signed in first –
Go to “Settings”

4. The iPhone and Android app
This is a quick tutorial for the Android version.
You can find the same tutorial on the App by going to:
Settings >> Launch tutorial

5. The Android app tutorial
Observations can be added offline and synced when a smartphone reaches an area with WiFi or mobile internet.
This illustrates how you can add additional information and data to your observation, it also gives you the option to obscure the co-ordinates of the observation. This could be important for rare or endangered species, such the Rhino, which are under threat from hunters. For community-based forest monitoring, this would allow communities to hide location information of commercially valuable timber species.

6. The Android app tutorial
iNaturalist’s unique selling point is its connection with a large volunteer group of amateur and professional taxonomists and scientific experts who can add value to each observation made by verifying and refining where necessary species identification.
On your phone, you are able to visualise observations of species by other users, but not analyse results

7. The Android app tutorial
User guides are available offline on the iphone to identify species, and online on the android platform.

8. Setting up a project iNaturalist

9. Projects basics
Projects are a way to pool your observations with other people on iNaturalist.
Click here to see projects
Projects you administer
Projects you have joined

10. Projects basics Administrator only.
Click to edit project
Terms and conditions of the project e.g. native plants only
Custom banner
Statistics and most observed species/observations

11. Projects basics List of project members
A way to add your observations to this project – batch option available
Find observations that are appropriate for the project, but haven’t been added yet
Multiple options for exporting observations
Species checklist for the project
Project use statistics
Map of project observations

12. Project management and curation
Curators
Curators can remove observations from the project and their identifications are shown alongside the observations on project- specific views. Curators can also see the true coordinates of private and obscured contributions to this project
Managers
Managers can do everything curators can do as well as editing project settings and write project journal posts.

13. Project journal
A journal is like a blog. It is a quick and easy way to communicate with your project members and the iNaturalist community.

14. Customise your project
There are many ways to customise your project e.g. banner, icon, description, location, rules and custom fields…

15. Customise observation fields
When in ‘Edit project’ mode you can add custom fields. Search for a field e.g. ‘Plant height’ and select from the list or create a new field.
See here for a full list of observation fields:

16. Creating a guide iNaturalist