GIS

Importing geographical layers for orgunit thematic mapping Start by installing the open source ogr2ogr tool. This should be available for most Linux distros (e.g. "apt-get install ogr2ogr"). For Windows, get FWTools, http://fwtools.maptools.org/ The most common format for GIS data is the ESRI shapefile, which consists of three identically named files with extensions .shp, .shx and .dbf. -You can use ogr2ogr to convert from between any formats (example below). Open the .dbf in a spreadsheet application (e.g. MS Excel). Make sure - there is a field (column) which has Orgunit names, and that these Orgunits are already imported into DHIS2. Also make sure all spellings identical. -On Windows, open the FWTools Shell and navigate to the folder with the shapefiles. Issue the following command (replace "output" and -"input" with the actual names): "ogr2ogr -F GML output.gml input.shp" +(You can use ogr2ogr to convert between any formats, see example below). Open the .dbf in a spreadsheet application (e.g. MS Excel). Make sure + there is a field (column) which has Orgunit names, and that these Orgunits are already imported into DHIS2. Also make sure all spellings are identical. +On Windows, open the FWTools Shell and navigate to the folder with the shapefile. Issue the following command (replace "output" and +"input" with the actual names): + ogr2ogr -F GML output.gml input.shp The column in the .dbf file with the orgunit name will have been converted to an XML element inside the GML file. Open the GML file in a text editor (e.g. Notepad++) and do a search/replace to make sure this element is called exactly ogr:Name (case sensitive), e.g. -Badjia - -Import the GML file into DHIS through the regular import interface (no need to zip) +<ogr:Name>Badjia</ogr:Name> + +Import the GML file into DHIS2 through the regular import interface (no need to zip)