Evolving Spatial Weights for Cartographic Synthesis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22252v1
• Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:34:29 GMT
• Title: Evolving Spatial Weights for Cartographic Synthesis
• Abstract summary: This study presents a multi-objective formulation of cartographic synthesis grounded in spatial autocorrelation structure.<n>We develop a bi-objective evolutionary framework, GIS-moGA, that estimates layer weights by simultaneously maximizing global spatial structure.<n>Results show that higher mutation rates are important for maintaining population diversity and preventing premature convergence.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The integration of multiple thematic data layers into a single composite map, known as the cartographic synthesis problem, is typically addressed through expert-driven weighting schemes. This study presents a multi-objective formulation of cartographic synthesis grounded in spatial autocorrelation structure. We develop a bi-objective evolutionary framework, GIS-moGA, that estimates layer weights by simultaneously maximizing global spatial structure, measured by Global Moran's I, and minimizing local spatial heterogeneity, measured by the variance of Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA). Because naive evaluation of spatial relationships requires O(N^2) operations, direct computation becomes impractical for larger datasets. We address this challenge by exploiting the 97.7% sparsity of queen contiguity matrices, reducing effective complexity to O(N k) and enabling scalable municipal-level analysis. The framework is evaluated on a high-dimensional spatial epidemiology dataset with N = 523 units from Araraquara, Brazil. A 64-scenario experimental design is used to examine evolutionary behavior across parameter settings. Results show that higher mutation rates are important for maintaining population diversity and preventing premature convergence in spatially autocorrelated fitness landscapes, where crossover operators can disrupt geographically coherent structures. Compared with expert-derived Analytic Hierarchy Process baselines, the resulting Pareto fronts show substantial hypervolume gains and significant improvements in spatial coherence (p < 0.001, Cliff's delta = 0.87). These findings provide a systematic and scalable framework for data-driven geographic multi-criteria decision analysis.

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