Strangely we could do for so long without a dedicated OpenMRS Initializer domain for locations. Until now we were simply bringing in locations metadata through OpenMRS MDS packages. MDS packages are always a convenient fallback mechanism when the desired OpenMRS Initializer domain is not (yet) available.
It was on our to do list for some time to finally address the case of locations. It is now done, please check the README about it here.
Let us look at a sample use on a Bahmni distribution of one of our clients that supports a small community health clinic in Haiti. Starting from an existing default Bahmni setup we want to end up with just two locations:
'Clinic' is the login location for providers at the clinic itself, whereas 'Community' is an ad-hoc location for providers performing community surveys while offline using Bahmni Connect. We had to deal with the