DHIS 2 GIS User Manual

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Conversion of geographical data to GeoJSON format The DHIS2 mapping client relies on GeoJSON files in order to display a map in the browser window. Often times, geographical data is received in @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ not required, that the names in your geographical data match those in the DHIS2 organizational hierarchy. If they do not, you will need to manually match them in a later step - +

Production of GeoJSON files with Geoserver Geoserver is capable of outputting GeoJSON formats. If you have geoserver running someplace, you can execute the following query. @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ type (e.g. “admin” for administrative layers, “health” for health administrative boundaries). For instance, the first administrative layer for Zambia would be named as "zm_admin1". - - +

Production of GeoJSON files with GDAL GDAL is a multi-platform toolkit for the manipulation of geographical data. It is freely available for a wide-range of platforms @@ -70,16 +70,16 @@ convention described above) and src_datasource_name with the source geographical data file. Take note that you may need to specify input and output coordinate systems as described above. - - +

Copying files to the DHIS application Currently, your GeoJSON files should be placed in the DHIS_HOME/geoson of your DHIS application to be accessible to the GIS module. If the GeoJSON directory does not exist, you will need to create it manually and copy your GeoJSON files there. - - - +

Administrator panel @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ - - +

Registering geographical information In order to view data in the GIS module, you must import your geographical data into your DHIS installation. Once you have produced @@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ - - +

Assign organization units to map Select a registered map and wait for it to load. The organisation units (OU) in your database on this level will appear in the list and @@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ The remove button at the button tool bar removes the selected OU’s link. The remove all button removes all OU links for the selected map. - - +

Register overlays Overlays are geographical layers that do not have any direct linkage to data in the database. Example include roads, rivers, airports, ports, @@ -273,29 +273,29 @@ 0 and 4. - - +

Thematic map This panel should be rather self-explanatory . Calculation method alludes to the legend interval size and set to Equal intervals they will be “highest map value – lowest map value / number of classes”. Choose Fixed bounds and you may set your own legend limits, e.g. “20,40,60” using a comma to seperate each of the class break values. - - +

Register views This panel will save the current thematic map view in order to restore it whenever you want via the Map view combo box in the Thematic map panel. By adding your views to DHIS 2 Dashboard you may access them there by inserting Map views into one of link areas. - - +

Register legend sets A legend set may be connected to many indicators, but an indicator may only have one legend set. Thus, you may select many indicators when you create a legend set. When an indicator that has a legend set is selected in the Thematic map panel, the number of classes, low color and high color is automatically set. - -