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Re:H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index (2018) by twic on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:29AM (#20469036)
It's also vital for correct aggregation: if you sum up some quantity over all the subdivisions of some area, you really want that sum to be equal to the quantity in that area. With this hexagonal pseudo-subdivision, it isn't.
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Re:H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index (2018) by mtrovo on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:45PM (#20472814)
I think as long as you're adding the leaves on the same resolution level it should be fine. the problem is when your storing objects in different levels as it would be possible on a KDB tree.
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