Forgot to add some regions that can be used for grouping and filtering (these are not WHO regions):
South-eastern Asia 'BRN','IDN','KHM','LAO','MMR','MYS','PHL','SGP','THA','TLS','VNM' Southern Asia 'AFG','BGD','BTN','IND','IRN','LKA','MDV','NPL','PAK' Western Asia 'ARE','ARM','AZE','BHR','CYP','GEO','IRQ','ISR','JOR','KWT','LBN','OMN','PSE','QAT','SAU','SYR','TUR','YEM' Central Asia 'KAZ','KGZ','TJK','TKM','UZB' Eastern Asia 'CHN','HKG','JPN','KOR','MAC','MNG','PRK','TWN' Northern Africa 'DZA','EGY','ESH','LBY','MAR','SDN','TUN' Sub-Saharan Africa 'AGO','ATF','BDI','BEN','BFA','BWA','CAF','CIV','CMR','COD','COG','COM','CPV','DJI','ERI','ETH','GAB','GHA','GIN','GMB','GNB','GNQ','IOT','KEN','LBR','LSO','MDG','MLI','MOZ','MRT','MUS','MWI','MYT','NAM','NER','NGA','REU','RWA','SEN','SHN','SLE','SOM','SSD','STP','SWZ','SYC','TCD','TGO','TZA','UGA','ZAF','ZMB','ZWE' 'AGO','BDI','COG','COD','GNQ','GAB','RWA','STP' On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM Knut Staring <knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > I have been working on a solution to import all the levels, but if you are > really only looking for the country level, it is quite straightforward. The > main obstacle is the size of the file, which can be significantly reduced > by a) filtering out polygons that you don't need (e.g. Antartica) and b) > simplifying those you do need, e.g. using http://mapshaper.org/ (which > can also be downloaded and run locally on your laptop). > > The filtering can be done in several ways. > a) It seems you already have the orgunits in your tree, which will then > serve as a filter itself. Do you already have three-letter ISO codes for > matching? > b) If you did not already have the countries (or no good way of matching), > you can use the ogr2ogr tool of the GDAL package like this: > > ogr2ogr -where "GID_0 in > ('AGO','BDI','COG','COD','GNQ','GAB','RWA','STP')" countries.shp > gadm36_0.shp > > c) Since we now require PostGIS (from 2.30), that is the most versatile > tool for all of these manipulations (though not sure if the simplification > algorithms are as good as the ones Mapshaper offers). > > I attach a file of all countries reduced to 4%, let me know if you are > able to use that directly. > > Knut > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:38 PM Shurajit Dutta <shurajitdu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> Was wondering if there was a simplified process to import GADM ( >> https://gadm.org/) boundaries into DHIS2. >> >> For example, if I have a global hierarchy of some sort and only want to >> import the country-level boundaries. >> >> ie. >> Global >> ---Regional >> -----Country >> >> Thanks, >> Nick >> >> -- >> Shurajit Dutta (MPH, MHI) >> Health Information Systems Adviser >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > Department of Information, Evidence and Research > World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland > Office: +41 22 791 3683 Mob1: +33 6 4434 2931 Mob2: +47 9188 0522 > Skype: knutstar > -- Knut Staring Department of Information, Evidence and Research World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Office: +41 22 791 3683 Mob1: +33 6 4434 2931 Mob2: +47 9188 0522 Skype: knutstar
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