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Re:A Hexagonal-tiled Cartogram for U.S. Counties by ge96 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:53PM (#42956537)
side note Uber wrote about hexagons https://www.uber.com/blog/h3/

I also remember a star link map with hexagons

Re:A Hexagonal-tiled Cartogram for U.S. Counties by ZeWaka on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:42PM (#42957003)
Starlink's availability map uses hexagons, but you likely mean https://satellitemap.space/
Re:A Hexagonal-tiled Cartogram for U.S. Counties by ajfriend on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:20PM (#42957354)
That map does seem to be using H3 hexagons: https://h3geo.org/
Re:A Hexagonal-tiled Cartogram for U.S. Counties by ge96 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @09:33PM (#42958323)
Yeah that's a cool site too but actually I was thinking of this super detailed post https://mikepuchol.com/modeling-starlink-capacity-843b2387f5...