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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the default format is latitude/ longitude as well,so be sure you
enter it this way.
On Nov 30, 2011 12:29 PM, "Knut Staring" <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
> janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:55, Sam Kasozi <kasozis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> ---------- 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
>>>
>>>
>>> **
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>
> The process is a bit cumbersome and needs to be improved. It assumes that
> your data are in ESRI Shape format which can be converted to GML using for
> example ogr2ogr. (It also assumes that you have made sure the names in your
> file match exactly the names you already have in DHIS2)
>
> In order to convert a CSV file or spreadsheet to the shape format, you can
> make use of Quantum GIS
>
> http://support.mapbox.com/kb/mapping-101/using-quantumgis-converting-a-spreadsheet-with-coordinates-for-use-in-tilemill
>
> If you are comfortable with MS Access, may be faster to link both the
> coordinate table and  the Postgres organisationunit table into Access using
> an ODBC connection, but you have to make sure you enter in the right format
>
> Knut
>
> 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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