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

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Bump on this one. More of a feature request than bug, but I do agree.
>
> We had mentioned about having a contrib folder. I think this would be a
> good place for this type of data that would be potentially useful for
> different parties.
>
> How about this structure, and then maybe the devs can fix the code around
> it at some point?
>
> /contrib/geodata/iso2code/geojson/
>
> where the iso2code would be for a particular country.


Right now the folder structure is simply /resources/geojson/. A more complex
structure, like Jason suggested, might be needed eventually?


>
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> Currently all the map files (geojson) needed for the GIS module are stored
>> in mapping/geojson in the dhis webapps folder.
>> I can see the benefit from distributing these files together with the
>> source code and inside war files, but often you will create these files
>> locally and put them manually into webapps/dhis. These files are then easily
>> lost when updating dhis to a new version (since you then have to delete
>> webapps/dhis). Would it be possible to keep these files in a
>> DHIS2_HOME/mapping/geojson folder in stead? Or if possible, fetch map files
>> match from both locations so that you get the best of both sides, both
>> distribution inside war files and a safe place to put additional maps?
>>
>> ** Affects: dhis2
>>     Importance: Medium
>>         Status: New
>>
>> ** Changed in: dhis2
>>   Importance: Undecided => Medium
>>
>> ** Changed in: dhis2
>>    Milestone: None => 2.0.3
>>
>> --
>> Move mapping/geojson folder out of webapps/dhis?
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426142
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>> Status in DHIS 2: New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Currently all the map files (geojson) needed for the GIS module are stored
>> in mapping/geojson in the dhis webapps folder.
>> I can see the benefit from distributing these files together with the
>> source code and inside war files, but often you will create these files
>> locally and put them manually into webapps/dhis. These files are then easily
>> lost when updating dhis to a new version (since you then have to delete
>> webapps/dhis). Would it be possible to keep these files in a
>> DHIS2_HOME/mapping/geojson folder in stead? Or if possible, fetch map files
>> match from both locations so that you get the best of both sides, both
>> distribution inside war files and a safe place to put additional maps?
>>
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