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

:)

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:15, Jason Pickering
<jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Lol.this is what I meant to write (longitude should be first) but it is so
> ingrained in my head it still came out wrong.thanks for the exact
> clarification Jan. :)
>
> --
> Sent from my mobile
> On Nov 30, 2011 1:12 PM, "Jan Henrik Øverland" <
> janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I guess we need to clarify this once and for
>> all :)
>>
>> EPSG:4326, aka WGS84, is [x, y] where
>>
>> x = the east-west position = longitude
>>
>> y = the north-south position = latitude
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:45, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Knut Staring
>>>> Informatics, U. of Oslo
>>>> http://hisp.uio.no
>>>> +4791880522
>>>>
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