[FORGED] Create a Spatial Weight Matrix based on road distance
I apologize for the lack of clarity. Let me try again: The SWM captures the spatial structure among territories. In the case of a matrix based on distance, you define a distance-threshold, say 50 km, and every territory under that distance is considered as neighbor, in the matrix, those territories considered neighbors take the value 1, and 0 otherwise (territories beyond 50 km). This is what 'dnearneigh' function does. Then, I want to define a distance-threshold, say 50 km by road (not euclidean) and every territory under that distance (by road) be considered as neighbor. El s?b., 22 de jun. de 2019 a la(s) 21:15, Rolf Turner ( r.turner at auckland.ac.nz) escribi?:
On 23/06/19 3:30 PM, Rolando Valdez wrote:
Sorry again. A Spatial Weight Matrix (swm) is an object used in spatial econometrics to characterize the spatial structure among territories. It is an element nxn where n is the number of territorial units (counties, districts, states, cities, regions) in the sample and it could be based on contiguity or distance. Usually, you can create a swm based on distance using 'dnearneigh' from spdep and then convert to a listw through 'nb2listw'. The problem is that the matrix that you generate trough 'dnearneigh'computes the euclidean distance among centroids of polygons. This is where I spot my issue, I need to compute the swm using the road distance instead of euclidean distance computed through 'dnearneigh'. I do have a shapefile with poligons (counties) and another shapefile with lines (roads).
OK. It's getting a *bit* clearer .... You are interested in "road distances" between counties. I'm still not entirely sure what this means. Is it the *minimum* distance by road from one county to another? In which case, if two counties are contiguous (adjacent) and there is a road crossing the border between the two, is the distance between the counties equal to zero? (This doesn't seem like it would be satisfactory ....) Yes, actually it is possible that two counties were connected by more than
one road, however it's not a big deal. If I define a distance of 50 km, it doesn't matter how many times two counties are connected, I just need that they are at 50 km trough, at least, one road.
If this is not the case, then what *is* the case? Perhaps you want distances between the *centroids* of the counties. What then do you mean by road distance when the centroids do not lie on a road?
This is a big challenge, I'm still working on it.
You apparently need to deal with counties in which there are no roads at all. To handle this you have to define what *you* mean by the distance by road from county A to county B when there are no roads at all in county B. Perhaps infinity would be the appropriate distance, but *I* don't know; you have to make the call.
If two counties are not connected through a road, they could not be neighbors. In this case, it would correspond to a value 0 in the matrix.
Previously you indicated that you needed to know (pairwise) road distances between specified points in a given set, and I showed you how to obtain those using pairdist(), from spatstat. Now it seems that you want something rather different, and it's still not clear what. In a sense is the same, but you said so properly, We have different
research fields.
You need to get *your* thoughts clear; make some definitions and specifications, and decide what you really want or need.
I got it.
It seems that you are expecting R to magically do your thinking for you; it won't! No, I'm not expecting that.
cheers, Rolf
El s?b., 22 de jun. de 2019 a la(s) 20:00, Rolf Turner
(r.turner at auckland.ac.nz <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>) escribi?:
On 23/06/19 2:38 PM, Rolando Valdez wrote:
> I am sorry, I was not clear enough. My goal is to calculate a
spatial
> weight matrix (nxn) across counties but, instead of euclidean
distance,
> to use road distance.
I'm afraid I still don't understand. To put it mildly. You
presumably
have a clear idea of what you are trying to, but those of us who are
not
involved in your research have no such idea. We (or at least I)
haven't
a clue as to what you are talking about.
What do you mean by "spatial weight"? What are these weights used
for?
What is n? How are the counties involved? Is n the number of
counties?
Are you interested in the road distance (minimum road distance?)
between
pairs of counties?
Please explain *clearly* and do not expect those who are trying to
help
you to be mind-readers!!!
cheers,
Rolf
>
> El s?b., 22 de jun. de 2019 a la(s) 19:28, Rolf Turner
> (r.turner at auckland.ac.nz <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
<mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>>)
escribi?:
>
>
> On 23/06/19 1:17 PM, Rolando Valdez wrote:
>
> > Thank you for your answer.
> >
> > I have a shapefile with, say, counties, and I got another
> shapefile with
> > the roads. ?What if a county does not intersect any road?
>
> I am sorry, but it is not at all clear to me just what the
problem is.
> How do the counties come into the picture? You said you
wanted to get
> the road distance between points on the roads. What have the
counties
> got to do with this?
>
> Can you perhaps provide a reproducible example?
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
> >
> > El jue., 20 de jun. de 2019 a la(s) 19:08, Rolf Turner
> > (r.turner at auckland.ac.nz <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
<mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>>
> <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
<mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> <mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
<mailto:r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>>>)
> escribi?:
> >
> >
> > On 21/06/19 12:26 PM, Rolando Valdez wrote:
> >
> > > Dear community,
> > >
> > > Is there any way to create a spatial weight matrix
based
> on road
> > distance?
> > > I am trying to use the road distance between two
points
> instead of
> > > euclidean distance.
> > >
> > > I've seen that there is a package named osrm. Can
anyone give
> > some advice?
> >
> > I don't know anything about "osrm". Calculating "road
distances"
> > can be
> > done in the spatstat package reasonably easily, if you
take
> the trouble
> > to represent your collection of roads as a "linnet"
object.
> >
> > Given that you have done so, suppose that your linnet
object
> is "L" and
> > that you have vectors "x" and "y" specifying the
points on L
> (i.e. on
> > your roads) between which you want to know the
distances.
> >
> > Do:
> >
> > X <- lpp(data.frame(x=x,y=y),L)
> > dMat <- pairdist(X)
> >
> > The object "dMat" is a (symmetric) square matrix;
dMat[i,j]
> is the
> > distance between point i and point j. (Of course the
> diagonal entries
> > are all 0.)
> >
> > If your collection of roads is specified by means of a
shapefile,
> > vignette("shapefiles") will tell you how to turn this
> collection into a
> > "psp" ("planar segment pattern") object; the function
(method)
> > as.linnet.psp() can then be used to turn the "psp"
object into a
> > "linnet" object.
> >
> > HTH
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