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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forgot to add some regions that can be used for grouping and filtering
(these are not WHO regions):

South-eastern Asia
'BRN','IDN','KHM','LAO','MMR','MYS','PHL','SGP','THA','TLS','VNM'
Southern Asia
'AFG','BGD','BTN','IND','IRN','LKA','MDV','NPL','PAK'
Western Asia
'ARE','ARM','AZE','BHR','CYP','GEO','IRQ','ISR','JOR','KWT','LBN','OMN','PSE','QAT','SAU','SYR','TUR','YEM'
Central Asia
'KAZ','KGZ','TJK','TKM','UZB'
Eastern Asia
'CHN','HKG','JPN','KOR','MAC','MNG','PRK','TWN'
Northern Africa
'DZA','EGY','ESH','LBY','MAR','SDN','TUN'
Sub-Saharan Africa
'AGO','ATF','BDI','BEN','BFA','BWA','CAF','CIV','CMR','COD','COG','COM','CPV','DJI','ERI','ETH','GAB','GHA','GIN','GMB','GNB','GNQ','IOT','KEN','LBR','LSO','MDG','MLI','MOZ','MRT','MUS','MWI','MYT','NAM','NER','NGA','REU','RWA','SEN','SHN','SLE','SOM','SSD','STP','SWZ','SYC','TCD','TGO','TZA','UGA','ZAF','ZMB','ZWE'
'AGO','BDI','COG','COD','GNQ','GAB','RWA','STP'

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> I have been working on a solution to import all the levels, but if you are
> really only looking for the country level, it is quite straightforward. The
> main obstacle is the size of the file, which can be significantly reduced
> by a) filtering out polygons that you don't need (e.g. Antartica) and b)
> simplifying those you do need, e.g. using http://mapshaper.org/ (which
> can also be downloaded and run locally on your laptop).
>
> The filtering can be done in several ways.
> a) It seems you already have the orgunits in your tree, which will then
> serve as a filter itself. Do you already have three-letter ISO codes for
> matching?
> b) If you did not already have the countries (or no good way of matching),
> you can use the ogr2ogr tool of the GDAL package like this:
>
> ogr2ogr -where "GID_0  in
> ('AGO','BDI','COG','COD','GNQ','GAB','RWA','STP')" countries.shp
> gadm36_0.shp
>
> c) Since we now require PostGIS (from 2.30), that is the most versatile
> tool for all of these manipulations (though not sure if the simplification
> algorithms are as good as the ones Mapshaper offers).
>
> I attach a file of all countries reduced to 4%, let me know if you are
> able to use that directly.
>
> Knut
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:38 PM Shurajit Dutta <shurajitdutta@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Was wondering if there was a simplified process to import GADM (
>> https://gadm.org/) boundaries into DHIS2.
>>
>> For example, if I have a global hierarchy of some sort and only want to
>> import the country-level boundaries.
>>
>> ie.
>> Global
>> ---Regional
>> -----Country
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nick
>>
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-- 
Knut Staring

Department of Information, Evidence and Research
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Office: +41 22 791 3683 Mob1: +33 6 4434 2931 Mob2: +47 9188 0522
Skype:     knutstar