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

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:55, Sam Kasozi <kasozis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jan
>
> Tonny working with the GIS unit in CDC has been helping us with the GIS
> component in the DHIS2. He referred to the manuals to try to add some
> coordinates manually, however they did not show.  See below his questions.
> P.s We had imported shape files for the regions and the districts, however
> we did not have coordinates for the facilities.
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> P.s He joined the dhis2-user list
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> Sam
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bogere, Tonny <inx3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:36 AM
> Subject: Health Facility coordinates in DHIS2
> To: kasozis@xxxxxxxxx
>
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> **
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> I have an inventory of health facilities with longitude and latitude
> values stored as decimal degrees. I entered some longitudes and latitudes
> of some health facilities but they do not display in the map as points when
> i generate the thematic layers and the facility layers
> Questions:
> 1. How do i import all the coordinates to the coordinates field into DHIS2
>
This process is documented in chapter 17 of the user manual:
http://dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch17.html

> 2. How do i get the facilities to display as points in the GIS module in
> the thematic and health facility layers after adding them manually.
>
If you enter longitude and latitude for facilities through the organisation
unit module interface they are ready to use in the GIS immediately. If you
enter the coordinates directly in the database you will have to restart the
server.


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