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[Alex Tumwesigye <atumwesigye@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Lise,

You can create an attribute or data element of value type 'coordinate'.
This will allow  you to capture coordinates.

Alex

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:35 PM, GROUT, Lise <groutl@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all,
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> I am working on several Tracker programs, and we will be recording the
> village of origin.
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> Tacker enables to captures coordinates, but they will be (most probably)
> different from one case to the other as it is designed to be able to map
> the exact location of the entity. And I know you can then use the new
> cluster  features in GIS.
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>
> But I would like to aggregate the cases by villages of provenance. Having
> one free text box to indicate the village name is not useful for this. So I
> am wondering if any of you have already found wise ways of doing it.
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> Here are my first ideas, but would like to have your opinion before
> testing them:
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> 1)      Create org units for each village, but:
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> a.      I fear the org unit will be very long to charge then
>
> b.      The cases are registered at health facility level in the org unit
> tree, not village level
>
> 2)      Create an option set with villages, but:
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> a.      I fear it will be impossible to load…
>
> b.      Don’t know if it can be dynamic (if you choose a district, you
> just see the villages of this district) (I think I was told it was not
> possible to do)
>
> 3)      Create a program to register the villages, and use the
> relationship feature (my favourite idea so far, anyone tried it?)
>
> 4)      Create a program to register the villages, and use them through
> another path. I know Uganda HISP showed something in Oslo, but I imagine
> this require coding?
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>
>
> Looking forward to reading your ideas!
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>
> Lise
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> Dr. Lise Grout
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Alex Tumwesigye

Technical Advisor - DHIS2 (Consultant),
Ministry of Health/AFENET  | HISP Uganda
Kampala
Uganda
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IT Consultant (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems -
DHIS2, Disease Outbreak & Surveillance Systems) & Solar Consultant


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