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Standardising Auxiliary Data

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==Country Structure==__NOEDITSECTION__

The Country structure represents a gazetteer, the political or administrative divisions within a country. In {{IMSMANG}}, the Country structure allows a Mine Action Programme to link Mine Action information to areas and report statistics such as number of victims per province or district. ~~So the~~ The Country structure should be set up before beginning data entry.

Ideally, a Mine Action Programme uses an official, countrywide country structure that ensures mine action information is compatible with other national datasets. Implementing an existing gazetteer requires two steps:

|[[Hierarchy Manager#Delete levels | Delete levels]]

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Defining the levels of the Country structure includes defining the number of levels and the names of the levels. For Country structure the maximum number of levels are seven~~. For example, in one country the Country structure has four levels, while another country has five levels in the Country structure, and the levels are not called the same in the countries~~.

[[Image:AdminGuide_ExampleCountryStructures.png|center|400px|''Example Country Structures'']]

Ideally, the country structure in {{IMSMANG}}, covers all levels of the existing Country structure, from the country level down to a level that can be represented with a single point such as a town or village. If a Mine Action programme has special areas such as Areas of Responsibility that do not exists in the Country structure, artificial areas may be inserted into the Country structure in {{IMSMANG}}.

{{Note | When the Country structure is established, it is not easy to add intermediate levels within the Country structure, so careful thought must be given to correctly establishing the Country structure prior to entering data.}}

===Define the Country Structure===__NOEDITSECTION__

|[[Delete Auxiliary Data| Delete Country structure]]

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When defining the Country Structure nodes, it may be desirable to add only the nodes for the portions of the country affected by mines rather than the entire official country structure. This reduces the amount of data in {{IMSMANG}} to only that which is important, improving performance and usability when entering and searching for data.

To display a Country structure node like a town or village on the map, it is necessary to add a geographic coordinate for the node.

* If the map extent is set {{IMSMANG}} automatically zoom and centre the map when the user clicks in the Country structure pane in the main navigation window.

* For ease of reporting, it is recommended to associate the majority of the Locations with one of the levels in the Country structure, normally the lowest level such as town or village.

* Alternative names may be in different languages and alphabets. It is also common to add PCode as an alternative name.* It is important to keep the Country Structure inside {{IMSMANG} in synch with the official Country Structure. }} {{New_6.0 | In order to facilitate updates of the Country Structure, the Country Structure ID has been made visible. Contact your GICHD IM focal point if you would like to update your Country Structure.}}

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