This is a nice to have feature of course, the spatial matching. However is is 
also extremely tedious when marching large number of facilities for instance. 
Normally the.spelling may only differ slightly but there will inevitably be a 
need to provide some type of feedback to the user that the import is not 
possible because there names in the geodata that do not correspond to the dhis 
database. Ideally, users should be able to match against the existing 
hierarchy.  Again I have not tried this yet but am leery about using the GML 
option just yet. 


Also, is it still possible in 2.0.5 to view a map of all administration units 
at level 2 as opposed to just the subset available through the drill down 
function? 

Sent from my HTC

----- Reply message -----
From: "Knut Staring" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 6:03 pm
Subject: [Dhis2-devs] (no subject)
To: "Jan Henrik Øverland" <[email protected]>
Cc: "dhis2-devs" <[email protected]>


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to suggest that we finally remove the map source types
> "GeoJSON" and "Shapefiles" from the GIS client.

Jason pointed out to me one big issue with the transition from
external GeoJSON files to importing geometries via GML: We lose the
functionality for linking shapes to orgunits in the GUI. I think the
spatial linking was quite cool, though perhaps not very important.
However, different spellings is a major issue. With the current GML
solution, there is no assistance for the user to point out which names
differ, or how to make changes - it has to be done outside of DHIS2,
either in the DBF file before converting or in GML.

Knut

>They are not able to offer
> most of the functionality that will be implemented in the future and even
> maintaining them as they are would hamper the development of new
> functionality considerably. However, overlays could still be loaded from
> local geojson files.
> In other words, I would like to control the geojson input to the thematic
> widgets completely by letting our own server produce it. This geojson may
> contain data from Geoserver, health surveys etc.
> JH
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