OK are you running the latest source code from trunk, at least the dhis-service-importexport and dhis-web-importexport modules?
The file you sent imports beautifully here. Lars 2010/7/17 John lewis <[email protected]> > Hi Lars, I tried to import the GML file using the import option. I dont see > any error in the log but in the screen it says "No import process > running". I am attaching the GML file of Orrissa which Jan have converted > and given to me. > John > > 2010/7/15 Lars Helge Øverland <[email protected]> > > >> We are in the process of changing the GIS module in terms of how the >> geographical information is persisted and presented. >> >> In the snapshot version we now store the coordinates in JSON format >> directly in the database on the OrganisationUnit.coordinates property. This >> gives us a lot more flexibility in the way maps are presented. >> >> Previously maps had to be registered explicitly either in the form of >> GeoJson files or Shapefiles. Then the user had to select a map together with >> indicator and period. Now the user can select an orgunit from a tree and the >> children of that orgunit at the level below will be displayed in the map. >> >> In large countries in India it is impossible to display a single map at >> the lower levels (eg. for thousands of districts) as the map will be too >> heavy and slow to load. Registering and managing maps for every e.g. >> provinces will also be too cumbersome. With the current solution there is no >> more work of registering and selecting maps - only the one time job of >> importing geographical data/coordinates into the database. >> >> Importing is a 4 step process: >> >> >> *1.* Convert your shapefiles (or whatever format you have) into GML. >> >> The recommended tool is FWTools, http://fwtools.maptools.org/ . The >> command for converting shapefiles into GML is >> >> ogr2ogr -F GML output.gml input.shp >> >> (make sure you stand inside the folder containing the shape files) >> >> Check available formats with the command ogr2ogr >> >> >> >> *2.* Make sure the XML element inside the GML file which contains the >> orgunit name is called exactly *ogr:Name* (use search and replace if >> not), e.g. >> >> <ogr:Name>Badjia</ogr:Name> >> >> >> *3.* Import the GML file into DHIS through the regular import interface >> (no need to zip it) >> >> >> *4.* In the GIS module, make sure the Administrator - Map Source setting >> is set to *DHIS database*. >> >> In the Polygon Layer screen, you can then select the orgunit from the tree >> which appears by clicking on the Parent orgunit field. >> >> >> Caveat: Shapefiles tend to have duplicate orgunit names, at least at the >> lower levels, which will cause the import to crash as DHIS requires unique >> names. This will have to be taken care of in the GML/shapefile manually for >> now, will see if we can handle this better in the future. >> >> Feedback on this is appreciated as we hope to release soon. Using the >> module with GeoJson as map source works as before. >> >> >> Thanks to Jan and Bob for great work on GIS / import so far... >> >> >> Lars >> >> >
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