Within the family of models designed to estimate species presence, known as species distribution models (SDMs), occupancy models account for imperfect detection. While there are multiple available options to perform SDMs in continuous space, this is not the case for occupancy models. Wright and Hooten (in press) propose a very interesting approach to fill this gap. They propose a novel approach using a clipped Gaussian process to infer species presence over continuous space, instead of the traditional site-based occupancy models. Their proposition has significant potential, and we examine it further from both practical and ecological perspectives.