diff --git a/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py b/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py
index 1cedd76010009413e24bf73472655c4745bf6d7c..bede7281c3ad7717131c462f0910ce1af8541b29 100644
--- a/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py
+++ b/ckanext/odsh/plugin.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def known_spatial_uri(key, data, errors, context):
     try:
         mapping_file = urllib2.urlopen(mapping_file)
     except Exception:
-        print('Could not load spatial mapping file!')
+        raise toolkit.Invalid("Could not load spatial mapping file!")
 
     not_found = True
     spatial_text = str()
@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ def known_spatial_uri(key, data, errors, context):
         if row[0] == data[key]:
             not_found = False
             spatial_text = row[1]
-            spatial = row[2]
+            loaded = json.loads(row[2])
+            spatial = json.dumps(loaded['geometry'])
+            print spatial
             break
     if not_found:
         raise toolkit.Invalid("The specified URI is not known.")
@@ -210,7 +212,7 @@ class OdshPlugin(plugins.SingletonPlugin, DefaultTranslation, DefaultDatasetForm
                 schema.update({field: [
                     toolkit.get_converter('not_empty'),
                     toolkit.get_validator('ignore_missing'),
-                    toolkit.get_validator('known_spatial_uri'),
+                    toolkit.get_converter('known_spatial_uri'),
                     toolkit.get_converter('convert_to_extras')]})
             else:
                 schema.update({field: [
diff --git a/ckanext/odsh/templates/package/snippets/package_basic_fields.html b/ckanext/odsh/templates/package/snippets/package_basic_fields.html
index c22327c65c39dc8d6fff27a6ad97a64be0c21a5e..f060872070793bb669ee84c46ff087efad3a6cfc 100644
--- a/ckanext/odsh/templates/package/snippets/package_basic_fields.html
+++ b/ckanext/odsh/templates/package/snippets/package_basic_fields.html
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 <!-- field title -->
 {% block package_basic_fields_title %}
+{{errors}}
 {% set error_string = _(_('Title') + ': '+errors.title[0]) if errors.title %}
 {{ form.input('title', id='field-title', label=_('Title'), value=data.title,
 error=error_string, classes=['control-full'], attrs={'data-module': 'slug-preview-target'},