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[Jan Henrik Øverland <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx>]

Right, then go for ArcGIS which is probably better. The reason for
suggesting MapShaper was that people are generally not that good with
shapefiles.


On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> I have already slimmed them down pretty good with ArcGIS, but will take
> look at this tool as well.
>
> Thanks. Will look forward to the document.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
> janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason. I am working on the user doc right now and will commit it in a
>> few hours. Make sure to update again as I just commited a few fixes.
>> Meanwhile I recommend giving this shapefile simplifier a try (polygons and
>> lines only):
>>
>> http://mapshaper.com/test/demo.html
>>
>> It may reduce the size of your shapefiles dramaticly and still make them
>> look good, sometimes even better. Lighter shapefiles do wonders to the
>> overall performance of the application.
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> HI there. I would like to give a demo of DHIS2 soon, and would like to
>>> include the web-mapping  module if possible. I have the latest version of
>>> the app from launchpad up and running, and have produced GeoJSON files for
>>> all of my admin units. Does anyone have any basic documentation of
>>> instructions for how to get this running?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
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