H3: Tiling the Earth with Hexagons

Why it was recommended

They go into a lot of the details later on the same video.

Recommendationmtrovo · Original2019-07

What it covers

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. It is for someone who already knows the basic terms and wants the next step.

Video details

Channel

Uber Engineering

Length

25 min 39 sec

Year

2018

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