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[Sam Kasozi <kasozis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks guys, the GIS 'greek' was the reason we asked him to come on board.

Am probably thinking he missed the bit of having the server restarted.
Implying that they should be showing by now.

He will try out the importation ASAP.

On 11/30/11, Jan Henrik Øverland <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> :)
>
> 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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