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who is using uber h3 and what for? (besides uber of course)
As one example, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission uses it in its Broadband Data Collection program. You can see some of how it's been implemented here: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/ Edit: It seems some people get a blocked message when visiting the base url. The home path may work better? https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home
who is using uber h3 and what for? (besides uber of course)
Sure, hex tiles make certain circular nearest neighbour searches slightly more accurate… but still have an error.
And then… everything else that’s inconvenient with hex tiling, like that issue that subdivisions of a cell leak into the neighbouring cells and hence don’t add up to 100% of the parent! This makes many database queries return lies, or the queries need very complex and slow(!) code to compensate.
who is using uber h3 and what for? (besides uber of course)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
As one example, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission uses it in its Broadband Data Collection program. You can see some of how it's been implemented here: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/ Edit: It seems some people get a blocked message when visiting the base url. The home path may work better? https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home
I cannot... Geoblockig European IPs?
who is using uber h3 and what for? (besides uber of course)
As one example, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission uses it in its Broadband Data Collection program. You can see some of how it's been implemented here: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/ Edit: It seems some people get a blocked message when visiting the base url. The home path may work better? https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I cannot... Geoblockig European IPs?
I'm blocked and I'm in the US
who is using uber h3 and what for? (besides uber of course)
Use cases are: - data storage - data aggregation/clustering - spatial indexing - geometrical computation (as long as you're OK with approximation, you can speed up a lot of things by working with CellID instead of actual geometries) - data visualization
I've seen it used by Databend, Helium, Breakroom (they did an Erlang binding on top of h3o), beaconDB, Greptime, Meilisearch. But I don't exactly know what they are using it for (just that they pulled h3o in their projects).
who is using uber h3 and what for? (besides uber of course)
H3 was integrated into ClickHouse in 2019, and since then, I have heard many interesting stories. There are unusual ones, e.g., when it is used not to map data on Earth, but for astronomy (stars, galaxies).