Are reports from "Find it by City..." locations treated differently or eliminated from some analyses?
I use "Find it by City..." for a number of small villages and hamlets along my 29-mile route to the Audubon Center [in addition to numerous personal locations and a few eBird hotspots].  My original thought was "why reinvent the wheel" with regard to these shared points, so I used them.  As a follow-up, I have checked the exact location of each [using "edit" in Manage My Locations] and they do fall on my actual route [or, in one case, within sight of my route].
If this type of location is problematic, I can create a new personal location for each, but is there an easy way to move all of my existing reports in one batch/location?  Shared points do not have a "merge" function.
On a related issue, how can I view the complete bar chart for these generic village locations?  If I go thru "My Locations," I seem to get only my own data, and I'd like to see other people's data [if it exists].
Thank you.
Dave Spier
http://eatonbirds.webs.com/

  I don't know that checklists placed by city are treated any
differently in general, provided that the location is fairly accurate
for the species on the checklist.  If the location is too inaccurate
for some of the species they may be flagged invalid - for instance if
it ends up putting ducks up on a bare mountain slope, particularly shy
forest birds in an urban/surbarban paved wasteland, or puts a rarity
far from the location where it was found.  Always check where the
location is actually plotted, and if the habitat is reasonable for the
birds then it should usually be fine.

brooks

On Feb 12, 7:50 am, Dave Spier <northeastnatural...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Thank you, Brooks.
To solve this problem I've added points over the years, and now have roughly 30 locations along the 29-mile route to the Audubon.  Distance between points varies from 0.4 mile to about 2 miles due to habitat changes [including villages], a county line and BBA block boundaries.  So on average, I'm within a mile of a point at any given moment.  What started as a 40-minute drive one way can now take up to two hours...  Did I mention that I get a little obsessive about things?
I have a part-time job in a different direction and there the habitat is more uniform - mainly rural and farmland - with no villages and only one hotspot, so my average spacing is about 3 miles, mainly due to BBA lines.
Dave
eBird is my home page.

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 From: Brooks Rownd <bkrr...@yahoo.com>
To: eBird TechTalk <ebirdtechtalk@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: How are "Find it by City..." reports treated?

  I don't know that checklists placed by city are treated any
differently in general, provided that the location is fairly accurate
for the species on the checklist.  If the location is too inaccurate
for some of the species they may be flagged invalid - for instance if
it ends up putting ducks up on a bare mountain slope, particularly shy
forest birds in an urban/surbarban paved wasteland, or puts a rarity
far from the location where it was found.  Always check where the
location is actually plotted, and if the habitat is reasonable for the
birds then it should usually be fine.

brooks

On Feb 12, 7:50 am, Dave Spier <northeastnatural...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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