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Oops! Found the setting for contributor categories and discovered that I had misunderstood something – please forget about this part:

In regard to filtering data it is also problematic that the text entered in the field “Title” on the form a contributor fills out in order to place a new marker on the map, automatically creates a new category. Contributors will create individual titles and most likely write a headline. So you could end up with an endless number of categories each containing only one post.

I believe contributors should be able to write a headline of their own choice when posting/adding a marker. But the headline should not generate a category. A valueable addition to the form contributors fill out would be a field with a menu that lets contributors choose between a limited number of admin-generated categories. That would enable a filtering of data and improve the usability and scalability of Sightings.