Urban Taxonomy using Hierarchical Morphotope Classification (AT, CZ, DE, LT, PL, SK)

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