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pheelicks
400 days ago
Yes, such indices (S2 & H3) are widely used for providing a index in databases, so geospatial features that are close by in the world and stored in nearby databases rows.
https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/grid-systems-spatial-...
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Bedon292
400 days ago
Thanks. I always enjoy when geospatial topics show up on here. My background it geo, but unfortunately I have slowly drifted away. Geohash is about where I left off in the same general realm of concepts, so S2 / H3 are essentially new to me as well.
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