DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17076283
title: Urban Taxonomy using Hierarchical Morphotope Classification (AT, CZ, DE, LT, PL, SK)

description: This data product accompanies a research manuscript entitled “The Hierarchical Morphotope Classification: A Theory-Driven Framework for Large-Scale Analysis of Built Form”. It contains the classification of the entire building stock of 6 European countries, geographically split based on NUTS1 regions.

Available data

Contents



{NUTS1}.parquet - Hierarchical Morphotope Classification results linked to building geometry

{NUTS1}_morphotopes.parquet - Hierarchical Morphotope Classification results linked to morphotope geometry

{NUTS1}_data.parquet - Underlying morphometric data linkable to building geometry

morphotope_data.parquet - Aggregate data linkable to individual morphotopes

label_name.json - Names of the cluster labels for first three levels of taxonomy

pen_portraits.json - Descriptions of the clusters for first three levels of taxonomy

ward_linkage.npy - The taxonomy itself encoded as scipy linkage object


File formats

Majority of the data is stored as Apache Parquet, with geospatial data being encoded as GeoParquet.

The data is split regionally based on NUTS1 regions.



{NUTS1}.parquet - GeoParquet 1.1.0. ZSTD compressed, with GeoArrow geometry encoding and covering bbox for fast spatial queries.

{NUTS1}_morphotopes.parquet - GeoParquet 1.1.0. ZSTD compressed, with GeoArrow geometry encoding and covering bbox for fast spatial queries.

{NUTS1}_data.parquet - Parquet, ZSTD compressed

morphotope_data.parquet - Parquet, Snappy compressed. All characters for non-outlier morphotopes - used to build the taxonomy.

label_name.json - JSON

pen_portraits.json - JSON

ward_linkage.npy - Numpy NPY


License

This dataset is based on data from multiple sources. The combined database is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0.

Attribution: Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors, TomTom, GeoBasis-DE/LGB, GeoSN, LGL Baden-Württemberg, GeoBasis-DE/MV, GeoBasis-DE/LVGL-SL, IT.NRW, GeoBasis-DE/LGLN, GDI-Th, LVermGeo ST, GeoBasis-DE/LVermGeo SH, Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung, LGV Hamburg, Landesamt GeoInformation Bremen, GUGiK (PL), ČÚZK (CZ), ÚGKK SR (SK), BEV (AT), Geoportal.lt (LT) and others.

Individual source building data is available under the following licenses and attributions:





Brandenburg: GeoBasis-DE/LGB — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Saxony: State Office for Geobasis Information Saxony (GeoSN) — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Baden-Württemberg: LGL, www.lgl-bw.de — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: GeoBasis-DE/MV — CC-BY 4.0




Rheinland-Pfalz: GeoBasis-DE/LGB — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Saarland: © GeoBasis-DE/LVGL-SL (2024) — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Nordrhein-Westfalen: Geoinformationszentrum, Information und Technik Nordrhein-Westfalen — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Niedersachsen: © GeoBasis-DE/LGLN — CC-BY 4.0




Hessen: Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0




Thuringia: © GDI-Th — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Saxony-Anhalt: GeoBasis-DE / LVermGeo ST — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Schleswig-Holstein: © GeoBasis-DE/LVermGeo SH — CC-BY-SA 4.0




Bavaria: Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung — CC-BY 4.0




Berlin: Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0




Hamburg: © LGV Hamburg — Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0




Bremen: Landesamt GeoInformation Bremen — CC-BY 4.0




Poland: Główny Urząd Geodezji i Kartografii — CC-BY 4.0




Czechia: ČÚZK — CC-BY 4.0




Slovakia: Úrad geodézie, kartografie a katastra SR — CC-BY 4.0




Austria: BEV — CC-BY 4.0




Lithuania: Geoportal.lt — CC-BY 4.0