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

2010/11/18 jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>

> This is a nice to have feature of course, the spatial matching. However is
> is also extremely tedious when marching large number of facilities for
> instance. Normally the.spelling may only differ slightly but there will
> inevitably be a need to provide some type of feedback to the user that the
> import is not possible because there names in the geodata that do not
> correspond to the dhis database. Ideally, users should be able to match
> against the existing hierarchy.  Again I have not tried this yet but am
> leery about using the GML option just yet.
>
>
> Also, is it still possible in 2.0.5 to view a map of all administration
> units at level 2 as opposed to just the subset available through the drill
> down function?


No, not in 2.0.5. However, in trunk you can, and in a couple of days you may
select parent *and* level.


>
>
> Sent from my HTC
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Knut Staring" <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 6:03 pm
> Subject: [Dhis2-devs] (no subject)
> To: "Jan Henrik Øverland" <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "dhis2-devs" <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> 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
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