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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