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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure it is better actually. I would prefer to use FME for this purpose,
but do not have it here. The files from MapShaper looked better, as I was
able to control the amount of simplification. You cannot do this with
ArcGIS.

Where are those docs. :)

Regards,
JP


On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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