Construcción metodológica de loa primera fase del observatorio geográfico y estadístico de Facatativá: implementación de SIG (sistemas de información geográfica) para especialización de indicadores estratégicos en la planeación territorial

Abstract

Decision-making in planning for development is based, mainly, on information about the territory and the dynamics of the individuals that inhabit it. This information is usually distributed in the different institutions, and their respective dependencies, as support for the formulation of public policy programs and projects. However, the information is found in registers and databases in a dispersed manner, and in some cases without any obvious link to the space, which hinders a functional geographic analysis based on indicators. The objective of this project was to conceptualize and build the first phase of the Geographic and Statistical Observatory of Facatativá. Based on a preliminary investigative approach, the theoretical basis of the Observatory for its legal formalization in the Planning Secretariat was defined and specified. In a second moment, statistical information of the municipality was collected, organized and processed, in this case indicators, for its subsequent spatialization and transformation into cartographic inputs. The territorial units addressed were the territorial units of the municipality, functional areas and neighborhoods. The production of indicators and obtaining spatial information were also part of the total execution of the work. The Public Identifiable Effective Space was categorized as a value for the achievement of the public space indicator per inhabitant for the La Arboleda neighborhood and the road network of the urban area of ​​the municipality was digitalized. The spatialized indicators allowed the formulation of different projects for the second phase described in the proactive report of this work, as a support for the prioritization and formulation of public policy. The calculated public space indicator suggests an alarming deficit for the La Arboleda neighborhood, which can be generalized for the municipality. The constitution of the Observatory allowed to centralize and verify the validity and integrity of the information, housed in databases, as specialized.