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

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> 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.


Great.


>
> Where are those docs. :)
>

Currently multi-tasking as never before. Give me one hour.


>
> 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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