NoPublic, bureaucrat, administrator
4,913
edits
Changes
no edit summary
{{HowTo's
|[[Add to the Country Structure]]
|[[Change a in the Country Structure Area]]|[[Remove a from the Country Structure Area]]
}}
When defining the Country Structure areasnodes, it may be desirable to add only the areas 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.
{{IMSMANG}} provides several ways to add country structure areasnodes. These include manually entering the information starting with the country and working down through each level or importing the data from an .XLS file using customised routines to import data automatically from an official gazetteer. To display a country structure area node like a town or village on the map, it is necessary to add a geographic coordinate for the areanode. Typically, a single coordinate is sufficient for displaying an area a node on the map.
As with all data elements in {{IMSMANG}}, the country structure supports the incorporation of Custom Defined Fields (CDFs) to augment predefined data fields. These fields can be used to collect and track information such as population, numbers of families and other socioeconomic and infrastructure information that is helpful in planning mine action activities.
