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Note: The ADS NHS Choices Downloader is only available to customers on iShare v4.4.6 or greater as it requires OGR 1.8 to connect to the WFS connection. However there is known issue with OGR 1.8 truncating some of the fields. This is due to how OGR determines (guesses) the field types; it scans the first few features it encounters to determine types and lengths which in this case isn't sufficient. Upgrading to use OGR 1.9 is sufficient in this instance to overcome the issue as the fields are "character varying" which is ideal. If you have encountered this problem please log on to the Helpdesk and Customer portal to create a Support Request outlining the problem and you will be provided with the necessary files and instructions. OGR 2.4.0 will be included in iShare V5.10.0. |
Why ADS?
There is a limit on the number of results returned from the NHS API (max 100 records per request, having 10 records per page)
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- Create a Workflow Connection to the WFS feed provided by the Astun Data Services (ADS)
- Create a Job to Refresh the NHS data
- Create Task to download NHS CHoices data
- Create Task to Create Table for Doctors and any other types of NHS data you wish to display. Our example uses Doctors but you may change this for any type you like. If you wish to use the default Standard Layer type (OGC Layers) then it is much easier to first create individual tables to filter out the data before you create the Layer.
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