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Re: Invalid coordinates GIS

 

sorry, addon:

the Excel file has three sheets:
Sheet 1 is what you sent
Sheet 2 has the facility column, LON, LAT (note: DHIS2 requires LON then
LAT) - I rounded to 4 decimals at the same time. NOTE also that I checked
all the rows, and highlighted illegal/absurd coordinates in red.
Sheet 3 is a cleaned version, pure text, with all illegal/absurd coordinate
rows removed. This sheet was then saved as the .csv file.

I then imported the .csv file into ArcGIS and created the attached
shapefile.

What you now need to do is to convert that shapefile to GLM, AND MAKE SURE
THAT ALL THE NON-ASCII CHARACTERS YOU FIND IN PORTUGUESE ARE CODED PROPERLY
IN THE GLM FILE. See for instance
http://www.periodni.com/unicode_utf-8_encoding.html#german_special_characters
if you need to know the codes for various characters.

Finally, I have obviously skipped one step that you always should do before
creating the shapefile - and that is to compare the list of OrgUnits with
the DHIS2 OrganisationUnit table. You can do that using e.g. MS Access, or
PostgreSQL, or whatever other database software that supports joins. I must
admit that if your list is what you have in DHIS2, you might consider
cleaning it up quite a bit: remove full stops, colons, and other special
characters. They tend to cause problems sooner or later....

Regards
Calle

On 15 December 2014 at 17:09, Joao Mazuze <Joao_Mazuze@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> Here is the attached file containing coordinates that I have set up in my
> dhis2 instance.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
> *From:* Calle Hedberg [mailto:calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* 11 December 2014 10:33
> *To:* Pamod Amarakoon
> *Cc:* Joao Mazuze; dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; DHIS 2 developers
> *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-devs] Invalid coordinates GIS
>
>
>
> Pamod,
>
>
>
> Latitudes south of the equator is always negative (at least in the typical
> geographical coordinate systems normally used in dominant GIS systems).
>
>
>
> Joao,
>
>
>
> Can you please post the complete list of coordinates - seeing one sample
> does not really help (your sample definitely looks like it's somewhere in
> Moz). Also post the complete list of Organisational Units.
>
>
>
> Jan Henrik's suggestion might work, but it's very cumbersome - I prefer to
> ensure perfect alignment of OrgUnits + verify the validity of all
> coordinates (as far as you can go - occasionally funny things seems happen
> when e.g. converting to GML) BEFORE importing the data
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Calle
>
>
>
> On 10 December 2014 at 17:03, Pamod Amarakoon <pamodm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Joao,
>
> The lattitude value you have entered in point coordinate is a negative
> value. It needs to be corrected. Are u using a local coordinate or WGS84?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pamod
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Joao Mazuze <Joao_Mazuze@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>   Dear all,
>
> I have recently set up coordinates for my health facilities, but when I am
> trying to visualize in GIS at the health facility level dhis2 throws: *“invalid
> coordinates”, *can someone help on this? I have attached a picture
> showing how my coordinates look like.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
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