
Ep. 248 - The Globe as Hexagons with Isaac Brodsky
The Local Maximum with Max Sklar
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The Difference Between H3 and Hex Tiles
H3 is an open source system it's out of the public hex tiles is something proprietary that we've built on top of that. It was created because of this problem that we were noticing when working with with geospatial data. We thought it was a great way to work with the data to analyze it visualize it all these things. But when we're transferring thousands, tens of thousands hundreds of thousands however many data points from like the server to a browser in order to visualize that things are starting to slow down. So hex tiles was really great to address this problem of we want to work with large data in this same grid methodology I'm talking about.
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