M4. COLOURING COLOMBIA - colouring-cities/manual GitHub Wiki
Host academic institution/department or academic consortium
The District University of Bogotá (Universidad Distrital - Francisco Jose de Caldas. The Department of Cadastral and Geodesy Engineering and the NIDE research group (Núcleo de Investigación en Datos Espaciales)
Host link
City/Cities selected for initial testing
Bogotá is the initial city, but the local team as selected the neighbourhood of Candelaria part of the downtown of Bogota as the initial pilot case to learn from it and then deploy the rest of the city.
Platform link
Social media links
tbc
Articles, publications and events links
See CCRP group page
CCRP membership start date
April 2022
Anticipated launch date
- Pilot Candelaria: Late August 2022
- Bogota city late Dec 2022
- National rollout: Information is not yet available, and the local team will assess the deployment of more Colombian cities once Bogota is implemented.
Academic Team
- Principal Investigators: Fernando Benitez-Paez (The University of St Andrews - The Alan Turing Institute)
- Co-Investigators: Professor Edilberto Suárez (U. Distrital) - Initiative lead and Professor Paulo César (U. Distrital) - Technical lead
Other team members (please specify role): The following are the names of the students in charge of collecting, curating and integrating the required layers
- Maria Camila Velez (Editor, Age)
- Javier Alejandro Beltran (Editor, Location)
- Jean Janer Villafañe Romero (Editor, Construction)
- Bryan Felipe Urrego (Editor, type)
- Ebliss Yissela Segovia Venales (Editor, Current use)
- Jenny Gabriela Romero Sua (Editor, planification)
- Angie Juliana Pirachicán (Editor, landscape)
- Jeyson Santiago Gómez Gómez (Editor, team)
- Laura Ximena Choconta Pardo (Editor, sustainability)
- Wilson Daniel Buitrago Mendoza (Editor, Dynamics)
- David Mateo Liévano González (Editor, Community)
- Juan David Dallos Becerra (Editor, Size)
Multidisciplinary expertise
tbc
Funding
tbc
Grant 1:
- Date (from/to): April 2022-
- Amount: Help-in kind (to be calculated)
- Funder: Voluntary input from - please add
- Purpose: Demo Set up
Open building footprint source
(e.g.Description of footprint source, any restrictions, plans for updating, level of accuracy, issues arising etc)
Initially, the datasource that will provide the initial testing will be provided by the IDECA (Spatial data infrastructure of Bogota). This local authority integrates more than 98 local departments and spatial layers in an open reusable license.
Base Map of Bogota: https://www.ideca.gov.co/recursos/mapas/mapa-de-referencia-para-bogota-dc Buildings: https://www.ideca.gov.co/recursos/mapas/predios-bogota-dc
There are other datasources that will be considered like OSM and other local datasources. The local team will implement a GIS system to help the validation and integration required to get all the layers.
Primary research interest/s in reproduction of platform code
TBD
Secondary research interest/s for reproduction of platform code
TBD
What are the most useful aspects of the Colouring Cities Research Programme for you?
TBD
What are the greatest challenges you anticipate during platform set up e.g. open footprint access, accessing skilled engineering support, funding etc?
Bogota is the capital of Colombia and, for more than ten years, has led a successful spatial data infrastructure called IDECA (Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales de Bogotá). With spatial data considered locally as one of the most updated in the country, the building stock is shared adequately in multiple formats, including a spatial format easily adjusted to be integrated by external applications or projects. The required attributes, curation and validation of data, and the implementation of a development environment, are the challenges we have been addressing since the moment the academic institution in Bogota accepted this project.
What could be done by Turing/the CCRP group add that would be of help? (e.g add specific features, new data categories, joint papers, joint funding applications etc.
We require a technical advice in the form of specific meetings where the local team can see the required steps in the implementation of the website, integrations of the data and how the data can be updated.
Key Collaborators
IDECA - https://www.ideca.gov.co/
Additional partners
Relevant publications by academic team
Plan of action 2022
The current plan of action for Candelaria (Bogota) pilot, following the suggested stages in the Manual of Colouring Cities Research Programme.
Pilot Area
Ongoing plan of action (Will be updated every two-weeks)
Learning curve and courses the local team will take to strength the technical skill have been identified
Updates
Date: June 2023
The local team in Bogota had recently held a set of meetings with the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Bogota --IDECA Spatial Data Infrastructure of Bogotá. This a public institution has been working for decades to deliver the most curated and precise spatial data from the building stock in Bogota, mainly because their main client/ally is the land register office. Part of the reason for this alliance and why this dataset is the best survey of the building stock in the city is due to their tax approach. Hence, they need to be quite precise. The data is well structured but also has some differences with the RPCC project, so currently, the local team are trying to find a sweet spot between what the app requires and the Bogotá characteristics.
Overall, they happily support the University and our students in that data transformation. Now, students are working on integrating IDECA data into the project and the app.
The university, specifically the research group led by Prof Edilberto and Paulo, has already committed to providing the required infrastructure to host the app and the public IP to keep the app running.
Previous Updates.
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First Fortnightly Check-in meeting with local team: Led by Fernando Benitez-Paez and Edilberto Suarez, the local team described the progress made the plan of action for the next stage.
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We have deploy a Slack channel to have a more fluent communication with the local team. This is the link and I believe anyone in the ATI can get access to Slack colombia. We will hold a project meeting every two weeks with the intention of boost the current progress.