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H3: Tiling the Earth with Hexagons
Uber Engineering
Uber Engineering's Joseph Gilley explains why Uber uses hexagons for geospatial indexing and introduces H3, its open source hierarchical grid system. He covers use cases and how distortion is handled.
HN points to it as the detailed explanation of why hexagons suit map grids, in threads about H3.
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