-- Abyot A. Gizaw. Senior Engineer, DHIS2 University of Oslo http://www.dhis2.org
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:59 AM, GROUT, Lise <gro...@who.int> wrote: > Being able to look for villages in the map will already be a big plus, but > still the coordinates will be different. > No, the coordinates will not be different. If you have searched for the same village name and picked from the system - you will always get the same coordinate. > > > Maybe ideally, we could mix: > > - Org unit data type for admin 1 (region), admin2(district) as > they will be in the org unit tree (coming in 2.25) > > - Search in the map for villages (coming in 2.25). But it would be > good to be able to extract the name of the village from there (so that it > can be used in the analysis) and also to see if a patient has already been > captured from the same village (so that you can should to use the exact > same coordinates). > Our long term vision is to store village names together with coordinates. The reason we are doing this is to display nice names - than coordinates - in reports and the like. > > > How do you see this? > > > > Best > > > > Lise. > > > > *From:* Knut Staring [mailto:knu...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 14 September 2016 10:34 > *To:* Abyot Asalefew Gizaw > *Cc:* DHIS 2 Users list; GROUT, Lise > > *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Tacker villages > > > > Ok great, I was confused because you talked about searching "in the map", > which I guess is optional (it is mainly a text search)? > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <ab...@dhis2.org> > wrote: > > Name searching is coming in 2.25, that is what I meant with the first > possibility. > > --- > > Thank you, > Abyot. > (sent from mobile) > > > > On Sep 14, 2016 10:06, "Knut Staring" <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am thinking that actually there could be another possibility as well, > though it is probably not quite availble yet, namely to use the name search > service which is already integrated in the new GIS module (second button > from the bottom up on the right hand side here: https://play.dhis2.org/ > demo/dhis-web-mapping/) > > > > AND/OR it could also be interesting to be able to populate option sets > based on the place names (with coordinates attached) provided by that > service. > > > > Knut > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Abyot Asalefew Gizaw <ab...@dhis2.org> > wrote: > > Dear Lise, > > > > One possibility is to use our new (coming in 2.25) coordinate capture UI. > It uses mapzen that allows you to search for areas directly in the map > and capture their coordinates. This could help in capturing consistent > coordinates. > > > > An issue though is, will all your villages be in mapzen's area database. > See here for more https://mapzen.com/documentation/search/data-sources/ > > > > A second possibility is to use option sets. How many villages are you > expecting? We are not loading options in drop down all at once. We use > paging+searching and each time we will only have a maximum of 30 options > displayed in the dropdown. > > > -- > > Abyot A. Gizaw. > > Senior Engineer, DHIS2 > > University of Oslo > > http://www.dhis2.org > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:28 AM, GROUT, Lise <gro...@who.int> wrote: > > Dear Alex, > > > Thank you for your answer. > > > > I already have a data element as coordinate in the form (actually it is > rather an attribute). But each time your register a patient, even if he > lives in the same village than a former patient, you will record slightly > different coordinates, the point will be slightly different. What I would > like is to be able to record the village of residence in a way that make it > useful for analysis (if it is free text, it cannot be used directly). > > > > Thanks > > > > Lise > > > > *From:* Alex Tumwesigye [mailto:atumwesi...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 14 September 2016 08:25 > *To:* GROUT, Lise > *Cc:* DHIS 2 Users list > *Subject:* Re: [Dhis2-users] Tacker villages > > > > Dear Lise, > > > > You can create an attribute or data element of value type 'coordinate'. > This will allow you to capture coordinates. > > > > Alex > > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 5:35 PM, GROUT, Lise <gro...@who.int> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I am working on several Tracker programs, and we will be recording the > village of origin. > > > > Tacker enables to captures coordinates, but they will be (most probably) > different from one case to the other as it is designed to be able to map > the exact location of the entity. And I know you can then use the new > cluster features in GIS. > > > > But I would like to aggregate the cases by villages of provenance. Having > one free text box to indicate the village name is not useful for this. So I > am wondering if any of you have already found wise ways of doing it. > > > > Here are my first ideas, but would like to have your opinion before > testing them: > > 1) Create org units for each village, but: > > a. I fear the org unit will be very long to charge then > > b. The cases are registered at health facility level in the org unit > tree, not village level > > 2) Create an option set with villages, but: > > a. I fear it will be impossible to load… > > b. Don’t know if it can be dynamic (if you choose a district, you > just see the villages of this district) (I think I was told it was not > possible to do) > > 3) Create a program to register the villages, and use the > relationship feature (my favourite idea so far, anyone tried it?) > > 4) Create a program to register the villages, and use them through > another path. I know Uganda HISP showed something in Oslo, but I imagine > this require coding? > > > > Looking forward to reading your ideas! > > > > Lise > > > > > > > > Dr. Lise Grout > > *Epidemiologist* > > > > *World Health Organization* > > *Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM/NTD/IDM)* > *Innovative and Intensified Disease Management Unit* > *20, Avenue Appia; CH-1211 Geneva 27* > *Tel. **+41 22 791 2341 <%2B41%2022%20791%202341>* > > *Mobile +41 79 290 68 61 <%2B41%2079%20290%2068%2061>* > > *Skype: tigrouveto* > > http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > -- > > Alex Tumwesigye > > > > Technical Advisor - DHIS2 (Consultant), > Ministry of Health/AFENET | HISP Uganda > > Kampala > > Uganda > +256 774149 775, + 256 759 800161 > > Skype ID: talexie > > > IT Consultant (Servers, Networks and Security, Health Information Systems > - DHIS2, Disease Outbreak & Surveillance Systems) & Solar Consultant > > > "I don't want to be anything other than what I have been - one tree hill " > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > -- > > Knut Staring > > Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo > > Norway: +4791880522 > > Skype: knutstar > > http://dhis2.org > > > > > > -- > > Knut Staring > > Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo > > Norway: +4791880522 > > Skype: knutstar > > http://dhis2.org >
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