[Dhis2-devs] GIS layers and loading the hierarchy

2010-11-11 Thread Knut Staring
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Jan Henrik Ă˜verland janhenrik.overl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to suggest that we finally remove the map source types GeoJSON and Shapefiles from the GIS client. They are not able to offer most of the functionality that will be implemented in the

Re: [Dhis2-devs] GIS layers and loading the hierarchy

2010-11-11 Thread Knut Staring
An additional thought - with JTS or Geotools, it should be possible to eliminate the ogr2ogr conversion to GML and rather parse the (simplified) shapefile directly. However, this is probably not urgent. Here is a quick presentation of the two libraries: