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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland
<janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to suggest that we finally remove the map source types
> "GeoJSON" and "Shapefiles" from the GIS client.

Jason pointed out to me one big issue with the transition from
external GeoJSON files to importing geometries via GML: We lose the
functionality for linking shapes to orgunits in the GUI. I think the
spatial linking was quite cool, though perhaps not very important.
However, different spellings is a major issue. With the current GML
solution, there is no assistance for the user to point out which names
differ, or how to make changes - it has to be done outside of DHIS2,
either in the DBF file before converting or in GML.

Knut

>They are not able to offer
> most of the functionality that will be implemented in the future and even
> maintaining them as they are would hamper the development of new
> functionality considerably. However, overlays could still be loaded from
> local geojson files.
> In other words, I would like to control the geojson input to the thematic
> widgets completely by letting our own server produce it. This geojson may
> contain data from Geoserver, health surveys etc.
> JH
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Cheers,
Knut Staring