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H3 geospatial indexing system

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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How to Smooth Out Disk Data in a Global Grid System

The H3 system is designed for quite specific use cases and not for every use case. It's a little bit of a do it yourself endeavor right at the moment. We're able to treat these identifiers as strings, which just work with them very efficiently. So we have essentially a data source that we can built on using the H3 system. Let's say you want to count the number of buildings in different areas. And so what we'd expect to see from that is like urban areas are going to be higher values and then probably more rural areas will be lower values using H3 for this.

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