Maps app - Summary of updates since May 2025

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Dear DHIS2 Community,

We are excited to announce the latest releases of the Maps App. In this post we are summarizing here the user experience improvements and functionality released since May 2025.

The recommended version is the latest release of v101.4.3, which includes all the enhancements listed below. Each improvement also notes the version in which it was first introduced.

Maps App - Releases v101.2.11 to v101.4.3 summary:

General improvements and notes

  • Calendars now include dropdown selectors for months and years | Jira | v101.4.3

  • Popups style has been harmonized and improved to manage long texts | Jira | v101.2.14

  • Map resizing has been improved for maps containing multiple layers and on dashboards | Jira | v101.2.11

  • We now provide a simple way to include Sentinel-2 cloudless imagery as a basemap thanks to S2-EOX | Jira | v101.3.0

  • Due to the discontinuation of the Bing service we now provide support for Azure Maps | Jira | v101.3.0

  • Multiple bug fixes - See “Previous versions” in App hub for complete list

Additional coordinates in Event layers - Org unit value type TEAs/DEs and org unit location | Jira | Docs | v101.4.0

In the Data tab you will now find extended possibilities for the Coordinate field. In addition to the already existing “Event location” (default), “Enrollment location” and “Tracked entity location”, or Coordinate-type data elements or attributes, you can now also choose:

  • “Organisation unit location” which will map the events using the Organisation unit they have been captured in

  • Organisation-unit-type data elements or attributes such as a “Referral facility”, “Place of infection” etc. Note: Only available for patch releases 40.8+, 41.4+ and 42.0+.

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Note that Organisation units are represented by their centroids in the Maps app. We have also implemented a system setting orgUnitCentroidsInEventsAnalytics (Jira) when enabled will create analytics event tables with a centroid value for each Data Element or TEA of type OU or OU Geometry. This has potential performance improvements and analytics table storage optimizations. This will not affect the Maps app showing centroids or not.

Style by data item in event layer improvements | Jira | v101.2.12

The event layers also received multiple improvements when style by data item in the Style tab |

  • Properly handle and distinguish values outside of defined legend categories or missing values as “Other”.

  • Properly handle data types AGE and TRUE_ONLY as well as option sets.

  • Improved values display in event popups.

  • Always count the number of events per category and when no styling is applied.

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Bubble layer enhancements | Jira1 | Jira2 | Jira3 | Jira4 | v101.3.1

Multiple improvements to bubble layers

  • Display min, mid and max values in legend and correct sizes for bubbles.

  • Display “No data” item in legend.

  • Fix color bugs.

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The Maps app is on continuous release, compatible with 2.40 and above. You can download the new release from DHIS2 App Hub or test it out on DHIS2 Play.

Thank you for your continuous support!

Best regards,

Karoline Tufte Lien

DHIS2 Product Manager

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