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Re: Coordinates vs. Lat + Long

 

Hi Tim,
The "coordinates" field is the one that is used by dhis2.  Those other two
fields are not standard.  The coordinates field is used to store also
polygon data, not just coordinates for point locations.

Regards,
Jason
On Mar 12, 2015 7:23 AM, "Timothy Harding" <hardingt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello Dev list,
>
> I'm poking around in the table looking at the GPS coordinates and found
> three columns, one of which doesn't appear to be in the GUI:
>
> latitude character varying(255),
> longitude character varying(255),
> coordinates text,
>
> Is the column 'coordinates' a hold over from a previous version?
>
> Timothy Harding
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