Bogotá

V・T・E Bogotá Distrito Capital, Colombia

latitude: 4.65341, longitude: -74.08369

Browse map of Bogotá Distrito Capital 4°39′12.28″ N, 74°05′01.28″ W

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Bogotá Distrito Capital is a city in Colombia at latitude 4°39′12.28″ North, longitude 74°05′01.28″ West.

Mapping guide

To start mapping Bogota, or if there is any kind of doubt over a tag, you can check the following guides:

• Guide for mapping in Colombia explains how to map Colombia.
• ES:Naming convention for streets in Colombia(es) explain you the notation of the ways, with a detailed section for Bogota.
• Public Transport in Colombia explains how to map the routes, busways, platforms, etc.
• ES:Colombia/Señalización(es) shows the traffic signs used in Colombia.
• Administrative boundaries for Bogota are defined different from the rest of Colombia - Tag:boundary=administrative#10 admin level values for specific countries.

If Bogota is your mapping area, add your user to the List of Users of Bogota.

Tools for mapping

These are some of the tools that allows you to map the city with higher detail:

• Bogotá maps from IDECA Catastro - https://mapas.bogota.gov.co/#.
  • How to consume this data - ES: http://maptime.io/bogota/2021/07/17/Servicios-WMS-para-Bogota/.
  • One of the WMS that it provides is: https://serviciosgis.catastrobogota.gov.co/arcgis/services/imagenes/Ortho2017/MapServer/WMSServer?
• GPX trace Heatmap from Strava - https://www.strava.com/heatmap.
  • Description of the service - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strava.
  • How to configure the editors: https://erickdeoliveiraleal.medium.com/tutorial-strava-openstreetmap-josm-or-id-2e2003f4aea3 or https://nuxx.net/blog/2020/05/24/high-resolution-strava-global-heatmap-in-josm/.
• Alignment of the ways thanks to Strava slide - https://labs.strava.com/slide/.
• Street level photos.
  • https://www.mapillary.com/
  • https://kartaview.org/ (OpenStreetCam)
• In JOSM, we are including some maps that can be use to map Bogotá. For the moment, there are:
  • IDECA Orthophotomosaic 2017 (JOSM).

Divisions

The administrative division of the city, as was previously explained, uses the following level in the admin_level tag for boundary=administrative:

• 8 to differentiate the urban from the rural zone.
• 9 for the UPZs.
• 10 for the neighborhoods.

Also, the place tag is used like:

• citi - for the Bogota label at the turn about at the calle 63 with carrera 50.
• suburb - for the label of each locality of Bogota.
• quarter - for the label of the neighborhoods.

There is a grand father relation that holds all father relations with the Bogota divisions: 12893637

• Postal codes: 11518309
• Department boundaries: 12893646
• Municipality boundary: 1387968
• Localities: 11249528
• UPZ: 11250532 - Set of neighborhoods.
• Urban Bogotá: 7426387

NOTE: These parent relations and sub-relations could throw errors in the JOSM validations, due to the fact that these relations do not contain ways as part of the relation. This is not really a problem, because these parent relation just group object internally.

Bogota has a particular division in the country, sharing the division at the departments level, but at the same time being a municipality. Also, Bogotá has an urban part and a big rural area.

Maptime

The group of mappers focused in this city is called MaptimeBogota.

This group makes mapathons to incentivize the community to participate in this project.

Work done

City boundaries

The city of Bogota has a division at the department level and at the city level. Following, you can find an explanation how the boundary tag has been adapted to the city: Tag:boundary=administrative#10 admin level values for specific countries

• The external part of the Capital District is equivalent to a department, which corresponds to level 6 in the admin_level tag.
• The border of the urban zone, which we call id Bogotá, corresponds to level 7. This zone given thanks to the external border of the UPZs.
• The city is divided in localities, where some of them thas rural or urban parts, like Usme. In this cases, the localities crosses the borders of the City of Bogotá. This corresponds to level 9. The set of localities determine the shape of the Capital District.
• One locality is composed by UPZs and UPRs. This is equivalent to level 9. The rest of the country has this level for neighborhoods, but here it was modified. Due to the fact that a locality can have urban or rural zone, the border of the city of Bogota is this distinction, to delimit bogota as a city, an urban area. Because of this, the limits of the city cross the limits of the localities.
• A UPZ is composed by several neighborhoods. This is different from the rest of the country, while using the admin_level tag.

Ciclovía

Ciclovías were mapped by MaptimeBogota, con apoyo de Kaart and this article describe the process.

Links

• Category:Users in Bogotá