Macedonia - iNaturalist World Tour

We're in Macedonia for the 138th stop on the iNaturalist World Tour. Macedonia sits atop Greece with Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, and Kosovo and Serbia to the north. The top 10 observers are @ahospers, @egusheva, @katya, @paulcools, @joopverbrugh, @conradaltmann, @christoskaroulis, @chrisvanswaay, @luciob, and @mileskib.



The number of observations per month increased in 2017.



The top 5 identifiers are @kharkovbut, @chrisvanswaay, @ldacosta, @jakob, and @borisb.



What can we do to get more people in Macedonia using iNaturalist? Please share your thoughts below.

@ahospers @egusheva @katya @paulcools @joopverbrugh @kharkovbut @chrisvanswaay @ldacosta @jakob @borisb

We’ll be back tomorrow in Mauritius!

Posted on November 11, 2019 04:59 AM by loarie loarie

Comments

Hi, @loarie, we have some problems with displaying the borders of Macedonia. If we specify Macedonia (former FYROM) in the Location field, we get on the map the real borders of this country and observations are displayed correctly.
If we specify North Macedonia in the Location field, we get on the map not real borders of this country but BOUNDING BOX. This is surprising because the borders remained the same.
This bounding box of North Macedonia includes not only the territory of Northern Macedonia, but also parts of Greece, Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria. As a result of this observation, protected species close to borders sometimes end up to other countries and their location says "unknown".

And of course it is very important to localize your products. As for Macedonian language,
INaturalistWeb - translated only 12%
iNaturalistMobile - translated 0%
Seek - there is no such language at all

Moreover, the nature of Macedonia is extremely diverse, I wish everyone to go there.
Katya

Posted by katya over 4 years ago

Hi @katya - well we can change the name of the place from Macedonia to North Macedonia if that would help. If you can help translate that would be fantastic!

Posted by loarie over 4 years ago

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