Identifying city influence spheres in Germany ¶
Alexander Dunkel, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development,
Transformative Capacities & Research Data Centre (IÖR-FDZ)
People who visit cities from rural areas will (sometimes) perceive the increased transformation they get in contact with when visiting cities. Vice versa, people who live in bigger cities who visit rural areas will (sometimes) interact with the local population. Both types may have measurable effects on TC in these areas. Our hypothesis is that areas that are visited by many people from different areas have a higher TC than areas where people mostly remain without contact.
The data approach we use is a mapping of users and frequentation patterns:
- Select all users who visited larger cities at least once, based on at least a single geosocial media post shared from in these cities.
- Optionally (to test): filter users based on some type of topic criteria (e.g. interested in sustainability, transformation etc.)
- Get all other posts from these users, including outside these cities (i.e. other places where these people travelled to and from where they communicated online)
- Return as List of Lat/Lng coordinates. Calculate Kernel Density Estimation (KDE). This is our influence sphere. We can freely define a cutoff value for the minimum KDE class.
- Calculate and overlay all KDEs for all big cities. Calculate the number of overlapping classes as a measure for city-influence-spheres
Preparations¶
Load dependencies:
import os
import csv
import sys
import colorcet
import psycopg2 # Postgres API
import geoviews as gv
import holoviews as hv
import mapclassify as mc
import geopandas as gp
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geoviews.feature as gf
from pathlib import Path
from collections import namedtuple
from pathlib import Path
from typing import List, Tuple, Dict, Optional
from pyproj import Transformer, CRS, Proj
from geoviews import opts
from shapely.geometry import shape, Point, Polygon
from shapely.ops import transform
from holoviews import dim
from cartopy import crs
from matplotlib import colors
from IPython.display import clear_output, display, HTML
from bokeh.models import HoverTool, FuncTickFormatter, FixedTicker
# optionally, enable shapely.speedups
# which makes some of the spatial
# queries running faster
import shapely.speedups as speedups
from shapely import geometry
Activate autoreload of changed python files:
%load_ext autoreload
%autoreload 2
Load helper module.
module_path = str(Path.cwd().parents[0] / "py")
if module_path not in sys.path:
sys.path.append(module_path)
from modules.base import tools, preparations
Initialize Bokeh and shapely.speedups
preparations.init_imports()
Parameters¶
Define initial parameters that affect processing
WORK_DIR = Path.cwd().parents[0] / "tmp" # Working directory
EPSG_CODE = 25832 # Target projection EPSG Code
CRS_PROJ = f"epsg:{EPSG_CODE}" # Target projection
CRS_WGS = "epsg:4326" # Input projection (Web Mercator)
OUTPUT = Path.cwd().parents[0] / "out" # Define path to output directory (figures etc.)
SHAPE_DIR = OUTPUT / "shapes" # Shapefiles
WORK_DIR.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
tools.create_paths(OUTPUT)
City shapes¶
We will get the city shape areas from the BKG product "VG250-EW", see Verwaltungsgebiete.
zip_citybd = "https://daten.gdz.bkg.bund.de/produkte/vg/vg250-ew_ebenen_1231/aktuell/vg250-ew_12-31.utm32s.gpkg.ebenen.zip"
tools.get_zip_extract(
uri_filename=zip_citybd, output_path=SHAPE_DIR)
vg_shapes = SHAPE_DIR / "vg250-ew_12-31.utm32s.gpkg.ebenen" / "vg250-ew_ebenen_1231" / "DE_VG250.gpkg"
Load from file and plot preview
shapes = gp.read_file(vg_shapes, layer="vg250_vwg")
ax = shapes.plot()
ax.set_axis_off()
Select all larger Cities¶
tools.drop_cols_except(df=shapes, columns_keep=["geometry", "EWZ", "GEN"])
shapes.head()
lcities_shapes = shapes[shapes["EWZ"]>100000]
Load Bundesländer shapes, for plotting references.
de_shapes = tools.get_shapes("de", shape_dir=SHAPE_DIR)
de_shapes = de_shapes.to_crs(f"EPSG:{EPSG_CODE}")
Plot preview in two layers, select all larger cities.
plt_kwags = {
"color":'none',
"edgecolor":'black',
"linewidth":0.2,
"figsize":(2, 4),
}
ax = de_shapes.plot(**plt_kwags)
ax = lcities_shapes.plot(ax=ax, color="red")
ax.set_axis_off()
lcities_shapes.head()
Dissolve shapes by GEN Column (City Reference)
lcities_shapes = lcities_shapes.dissolve(by='GEN')
len(lcities_shapes)
Confirmed with 83 specified in Wikipedia article. We now have our base for measuring city sphere influence.
Intersect with Social Media Data¶
Test city: Berlin¶
Select a single city from our previous dataset: Berlin
berlin_shp = lcities_shapes[lcities_shapes.index=="Berlin"]
ax = berlin_shp.plot(**plt_kwags)
ax.set_axis_off()
Simplify shape with a 1000 m tolerance.
berlin_shp = berlin_shp.simplify(tolerance=1000)
ax = berlin_shp.plot(**plt_kwags)
ax.set_axis_off()
Get the Well-Known Text (WKT) from the shape, for using this in the PostGis query.
berlin_wkt = berlin_shp.iloc[0].wkt
berlin_wkt[:50]
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv(
Path.cwd().parents[0] / '.env', override=True)
db_user = "postgres"
db_pass = os.getenv('POSTGRES_PASSWORD')
db_host = "hlldb"
db_port = "5432"
db_name = "hlldb"
db_connection_hll = psycopg2.connect(
host=db_host,
port=db_port,
dbname=db_name,
user=db_user,
password=db_pass
)
db_conn_hll = tools.DbConn(db_connection_hll)
cur_hll = db_connection_hll.cursor()
cur_hll.execute("SELECT 1;")
db_conn = tools.DbConn(db_connection_hll)
print(cur_hll.statusmessage)
MVIEWS_REF = "all_posts_de"
Check if foreign table has been imported already:
sql_query = f"""
SELECT EXISTS (
SELECT FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema = 'mviews'
AND table_name = '{MVIEWS_REF}'
);
"""
result = db_conn_hll.query(sql_query)
result["exists"][0]
PostGIS SQL Query DB¶
Select all posts that have a post_latlng within berlin_wkt. Remove the LIMIT 10 after testing.
%%time
cols = "origin_id, post_body, hashtags, emoji"
sql_query = f"""
SELECT {cols}
FROM mviews.{MVIEWS_REF} p1
WHERE
ST_Intersects(p1.post_latlng,
ST_GeographyFromText(
'SRID=4326;
{berlin_wkt}
'))
--LIMIT 10
"""
samples = db_conn_hll.query(sql_query)
samples.head()
Create notebook HTML¶
!jupyter nbconvert --to html_toc \
--output-dir=../resources/html/ ./04_influence_sphere_cities.ipynb \
--template=../nbconvert.tpl \
--ExtractOutputPreprocessor.enabled=False >&- 2>&-