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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Loads of examples of shapefiles can be downloaded from these sites:
http://www.diva-gis.org/Data
http://gadm.org/country

I am investigating how we best can set up a pipeline for GeoJSON
production, which would entail the following steps:

1) Simplification
2) Transformation to GeoJSON
3) Splitting of layers into features
4) Populating the orgunittable (also with the hierarchy)

Unfortunately, it seems like a commercial tool like ArcMap or FME
(which I have here) would be the easiest way to automate this
pipeline.

But it could also be possible to ask people to simplify their
shapefiles using Mapshaper.org and then be able to upload to DHIS,
where we automate the last three steps.

Knut

2010/5/19 Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Thanks for valuable input. Using GML in one way or the other was part of the
> plan as it seems the most versatile format among those produced by
> Geoserver.
> Before deciding I really need to see some more examples of Shapefiles. The
> ones for SL are a bit weird as Geoserver produces invalid XML when exporting
> the facility layer to GML (one reason is that the name column is called
> "name of fa" and that is attempted translated into an xml element).
> Does anyone have a couple of "standard" shapefiles? I guess the WHO ones are
> the closet we get to that. Knut, could you provide some more examples of
> that (without me having to sign and fax a bunch of forms like last time:-) ?
> Lars



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Cheers,
Knut Staring