Episode 248 - The Globe as Hexagons with Isaac Brodsky
Today's guest is Foursquare Principal Engineer and Unfolded Founder Isaac Brodsky, talking about the mission of location visualization and how this was achieved by tiling the world with Hexagons using the H3 open source framework and Foursquare's Hex Tiles. We learn a lot about the geometry of the globe!
Isaac Brodsky
Principal Engineer at Foursquare
Links
Atlas: Richard Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion World Map 1980
Foursquare: Introducing Hex Tiles: Our Next Gen Tiling System
Foursquare: Kontur Uses Unfolded Hex Tiles to Power Data Visualisation
Medium: Hex Tiles: Building a new data tiling system with H3
Medium: Using OpenStreetMap in Hex Tiles
H3: Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system
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