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Re: GIS shapefiles integration / info about names of feature members

 

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:53 AM, <duttas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Sorry Knut,
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> I think you’ve lost me a bit here.
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Yes, I know I did not provide a full reply (was on my phone). I also saw
there was a new commit to Trunk yesterday which rewrote the GML import -
not sure if that provides any more flexibility to select number of
decimals, which has been set to 4, but you want something less accurate but
faster. 4 means roughly 10m accuracy, 2 would mean 1 KM accuracy:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7167604/how-accurately-should-i-store-latitude-and-longitude

If you want to change the 4 to 2, you actually have to stop Tomcat and
go into your tomcat\webapps\dhis\WEB-INF\lib\ folder.

In there, you will find the library dhis-service-importexport-2.16.jar

If you unzip that into a new subfolder, you will find that it contains a
folder called transform, which again contains the file gml2dxf.xsl

Open that in Notepad++ or similar, and line 7 is like this:
<xsl:param name="decimalPlaces">4</xsl:param>

Change the number and rezip all the CONTENT of the
dhis-service-importexport-2.16 folder (not the folder itself). Rename it
 to .jar and replace the old dhis-service-importexport-2.16.jar file. Start
Tomcat and ready to import...

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> I did end up importing the co-ordinates into an offline copy of the DB
> just to see how its working (seems like the files etc are OK at least). Is
> either method preferable over the other?
>

I say go with what works for you  - hoping though that Sushil's app would
assist people - but there are many aspects to this, including matching
hierarchies created from Excel files with names in Shape files. Perhaps
Sushil could also add functionality for selecting the number of decimals.


>   Also, on the offline copy of the DB I upgraded to stable 2.16 to see
> how things would work. When I run the facility layer in the GIS, I no
> longer get the symbol images I had selected for the org unit group, just
> broken image files like so:
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> When I check the org unit group, they are still assigned to the correct
> symbol. Any ideas?
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The standard response is always to check your caching - BUT it seems the
same is happening on https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/, so this looks like a
bug. Please report it on Launchpad

Knut


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> *From:* Knut Staring [mailto:knutst@xxxxxxxxx]
> *Sent:* 10 October 2014 02:21
> *To:* DUTTA, Shurajit Nicky (SLB)
> *Cc:* dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kaderb777@xxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* RE: [Dhis2-users] GIS shapefiles integration / info about
> names of feature members
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> There is an xslt file which sets the number to 4. You could edit that
> inside the .war file. Alternatively, we could come up with a regex SQL
> query which you could apply after import
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> On Oct 10, 2014 5:10 AM, <duttas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> Sorry for reviving an old thread. I was trying to look back through the
> list as well as online for a little help but couldn’t come up with anything.
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> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I was looking for a
> simplified method to perform this step on a set of polygons as outlined in
> the user guide:
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> Coordinates: The number of significant decimal digits (e.g.
> 23.02937874993774) should be shortened to fewer digits (e.g. 23.03).
> Although this will result in some inaccuracies on the map, given the usual
> scale at which maps in DHIS2 are produced (> 1:50,000), the loss of
> precision should not be noticeable. Normally, no more than four significant
> digits after the decimal point should be necessary
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> I went ahead and tried an import preview after following the rest of the
> steps in the guide and things seemed OK as no new org units were being
> added, but as speed is a real issue here I wanted to shorten the
> significant digits down to 2 decimal places as suggested before actually
> importing. Is there any additional resources I could have a look at or is
> this perhaps more complicated than I am thinking?
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> Thanks,
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> Nick
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> *From:* Dhis2-users [mailto:dhis2-users-bounces+duttas=
> wpro.who.int@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Knut Staring
> *Sent:* 27 September 2014 06:12
> *To:* Kader Irchad Barry
> *Cc:* dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] GIS shapefiles integration / info about
> names of feature members
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> Google yields this:
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> https://geonet.esri.com/thread/36491
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> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Kader Irchad Barry <kaderb777@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> Hi.
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> Jason took a look on my files and it appears actually that some .dbf files
> were corrupted. This could happen as he says when opening a .dbf file with
> Excel than saving it again with this software.
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> I've been able to correctly run ogr2ogr command with new .dbf files taken
> from the source and generate the appropriate .gml files. It might be
> interesting for this task to get tools for checking integrity of
> shapefiles, any idea ?
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> Thank you for your help.
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> Best regards,
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> Kader
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> 2014-09-26 21:31 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> You have to run the FWTools shell, not your ordinary command window.
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> Once you have opened that, just go to c:\Simplification:
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> > cd
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> > cd Simplification
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> Rremove the previously generated file:
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> >rm Communes.gml
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> Now try again:
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> > ogr2ogr -f GML Communes.gml Communes.shp
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> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Kader Irchad Barry <kaderb777@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> Yes Knut,
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> They are the same. Attached screenshot of directory and QGIS attribute
> table.
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> Is it because I'm running the FWTool ogr2ogr from the FWTool directory
> whereas the shapefiles are in a different dir (see 3rd screenshot) ?
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> 2014-09-26 19:24 GMT+03:00 Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> Are you sure the name of the .shp and .dbf files are exactly the same?
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> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Kader Irchad Barry <kaderb777@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am following the 'Setting up GIS' chapter in order to add our country
> boundaries to DHIS2, but I am not getting in the converted GML files the
> names of the feature members as described in the manual.
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> These info being stored in the .dbf files of the shapefiles structure,
> isn't there another step in order to merge them with the .shp files in
> order to have them described into the .gml files when using the conversion
> tool ?
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> Below an excerpt of one gml file:
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>  <gml:featureMember>
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>     <ogr:communes fid="0">
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>       <ogr:geometryProperty><gml:Polygon
> srsName="EPSG:4326"><gml:outerBoundaryIs><gml:LinearRing><gml:coordinates>44.520928,-12.21365
> 44.516667,-12.213444 44.515377,-12.217299 44.508177,-12.219482
> 44.48914,-12.219355 44.483688,-12.215721 44.474738,-12.211509
> 44.474765,-12.207788 44.486503,-12.198935 44.488153,-12.194262
> 44.492306,-12.191121 44.492686,-12.188164 44.490472,-12.187333
> 44.484528,-12.18125 44.47715,-12.175736 44.473761,-12.172392
> 44.469769,-12.165611 44.466832,-12.161886 44.497145,-12.154971
> 44.500402,-12.153843 44.503083,-12.159002 44.503082,-12.162418
> 44.507053,-12.171983 44.511,-12.176615 44.513624,-12.178458
> 44.515082,-12.184026 44.517226,-12.187109 44.519828,-12.192961
> 44.517851,-12.194513 44.520828,-12.197976 44.520943,-12.201551
> 44.519115,-12.204698 44.519313,-12.209046
> 44.520928,-12.21365</gml:coordinates></gml:LinearRing></gml:outerBoundaryIs></gml:Polygon></ogr:geometryProperty>
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>     </ogr:communes>
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>   </gml:featureMember>
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> which shows no property holding the name of the feature members.
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> What could be missing ?
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> Thanking you in advance.
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> Best regards,
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> Kader
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> Knut Staring
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> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
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> +4791880522
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> Skype: knutstar
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> http://dhis2.org
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> --
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> Knut Staring
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> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
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> +4791880522
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> Skype: knutstar
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> http://dhis2.org
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> --
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> Knut Staring
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> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
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> +4791880522
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> Skype: knutstar
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> http://dhis2.org
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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
+4791880522
Skype: knutstar
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