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95 points pheelicks | 2 comments | 13 May 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source
1. jll29 ◴[13 May 25 13:39 UTC] No.43972870[source]▶
A5 uses pentagons, Uber's H3 uses hexagons:

H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index https://www.uber.com/en-DE/blog/h3/

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2. pheelicks ◴[13 May 25 13:42 UTC] No.43972901[source]▶
Also check S2: http://s2geometry.io/, created at Google before H3, which uses squares and underpins the fast indexing in BigQuery amongst many other things