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Thanks Jason,
I personally found ogr2ogr a challenge on my machine. Which is why I was suggesting a range of options. Will explore these. Thanks again. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:18:47 
To: <jerome.shaguy@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dhis2-devs<dhis2-devs-bounces+jeromeshaguy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Knut Staring<knutst@xxxxxxxxx>; DHIS 2 developers<dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Importing Organisation Units

Hi Jerome,

Your contributions to the manual would be of course most welcome to
everyone. Let me know if you need more info about making changes, but
it is described in detail here
(http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/apa.html)

The other ways which I know about to transform data into GML include:

1) ogr2ogr (which of course is the method described in the manual)
2) Other GIS packages such as ArcGIS (commercial), FWTools (free),
QGIS (free) and Manifold (commercial)  all work quite well.
3) There are a whole host of Spatial ETL tools out there which can do
the job. My personal choice would be FME from Safe Software, which is
commercial. GeoKettle is an open source alternative which is very
capable as well.
4) R and various packages which go along with it (maptools, rgdal,
XML) is also another alternative.

I am sure there are other methods.

So, there is no set recipe. It really depends on which tools you are
most familiar with and have at your disposal. It would be great to
have a "Shape file loader" or "Excel loader" which would do this job
for you, but normally, there is a lot of work which needs to go into
being sure the source data is clean enough to load into DHIS2. Again,
there has been no set recipe I have seen, and will always depend on
the data source and how "clean" it is with respect to what needs to be
loaded into DHIS2.

Best regards,
Jason


On 8/8/13, jeromeshaguy@xxxxxxxxx <jeromeshaguy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Jason:
> Your text about importing organisation units has been very useful to third
> parties like myself. In line with what you've just said here re GML
> conversions: we just finished setting up our GIS, but we found the GML
> conversion technique that's stated in the manual a challenge. We are
> proposing to re-write the manual and would be very greatful if you could
> tell the other ways GML files are converted so we can include them in the
> new manual in order to give new users a wider range of options. Thank you
> for your help!
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sender: "Dhis2-devs"
> 	<dhis2-devs-bounces+jeromeshaguy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Date: Thu, 8
> Aug 2013 08:12:12
> To: Knut Staring<knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: DHIS 2 developers<dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Importing Organisation Units
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