Colombia/Project/OCHA Boundary Import

The Colombia OCHA Boundary Import is a community import of admin boundary data for Colombia.

Imports and automated edits should only be carried out by those with experience and understanding of the way the OpenStreetMap community creates maps, and only with careful planning and consultation with the local community.
See Import/Guidelines and Automated Edits code of conduct for more information. Imports/automated edits which do not follow these guidelines might be reverted!

The 2000-nodes problem

To convert from shp

Key normalization

Municipalities

see the wikipedia as well : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalities_of_Colombia

Ways

For the ways this should be enough:

<tag k="admin_level" v="6"/>
<tag k="boundary" v="administrative"/>
<tag k="source" v="OCHA - SIGOT" />

(Using the boundary=administrative tag)

Relations

Keys that should go in the relations and NOT in the ways

Original key	Suggested key change	Comment
name	No change	Not-nouns such as de, del, de la on a non-leading position should be lower-case, i.e. Belén De Umbría -> Belén de Umbría
DEPARTAMEN	is_in:state	Should not be all in CAPS
CODANE	divipola	The same as in the April 2010 import of places from OCHA. We could change it to something like DANE:municipio in the near future.
CODANEDEP	DANE:departamento
AREA_OFICI	DANE:area	Given in km²
LAT	drop?	Not sure what this is, probably the admin_centre. If so, it exists already from the April 2010 import.
LON	drop?	Id.

Additional tags

<tag k="type" v="multipolygon"/>
<tag k="admin_level" v="6"/>
<tag k="boundary" v="administrative"/>
<tag k="is_in:country" v="Colombia" />
<tag k="source" v="OCHA - SIGOT" />

admin_centre

The place=town with the matching divipola should have the role admin_centre.

Provincia

The provinces are between departments and municipalities.

see : http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincias_de_Colombia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Colombia

<tag k="admin_level" v="5"/>
<tag k="boundary" v="administrative"/>

Departments

32 departments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_Colombia

Ways

<tag k="admin_level" v="4"/>
<tag k="boundary" v="administrative"/>
<tag k="source" v="OCHA - SIGOT" />

Relations

Keys that should go in the relations an NOT in the ways

Original key	Suggested key change	Comment
name	No change	Should not be all in CAPS
CLCFILE	drop
CODANEDEP	DANE:departamento

Additional tags

<tag k="type" v="multipolygon"/>
<tag k="admin_level" v="4"/>
<tag k="boundary" v="administrative"/>
<tag k="is_in:country" v="Colombia" />
<tag k="source" v="OCHA - SIGOT" />

capital

The capital of each department (place=city) should have the role capital.