Hex2vec -- Context-Aware Embedding H3 Hexagons with OpenStreetMap Tags

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00970v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 14:22:53 GMT
• Title: Hex2vec -- Context-Aware Embedding H3 Hexagons with OpenStreetMap Tags
• Authors: Szymon Wo\'zniak, Piotr Szyma\'nski
• Abstract summary: We propose the first approach to learning vector representations of regions with respect to urban functions and land-use in a micro-region grid. We identify a subset of OpenStreetMap tags related to major characteristics of land-use, building and urban region functions, types of water, green or other natural areas. The resulting vector representations showcase semantic structures of the map characteristics, similar to ones found in vector-based language models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Representation learning of spatial and geographic data is a rapidly developing field which allows for similarity detection between areas and high-quality inference using deep neural networks. Past approaches however concentrated on embedding raster imagery (maps, street or satellite photos), mobility data or road networks. In this paper we propose the first approach to learning vector representations of OpenStreetMap regions with respect to urban functions and land-use in a micro-region grid. We identify a subset of OSM tags related to major characteristics of land-use, building and urban region functions, types of water, green or other natural areas. Through manual verification of tagging quality, we selected 36 cities were for training region representations. Uber's H3 index was used to divide the cities into hexagons, and OSM tags were aggregated for each hexagon. We propose the hex2vec method based on the Skip-gram model with negative sampling. The resulting vector representations showcase semantic structures of the map characteristics, similar to ones found in vector-based language models. We also present insights from region similarity detection in six Polish cities and propose a region typology obtained through agglomerative clustering.

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