Re:How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes
by urschrei on Saturday February 07, 2026 @06:48AM
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Hexagons do tile the Euclidean plane perfectly. They are the largest of the three n-gons that do so.
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Re:How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes
by rockinghigh on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:34PM
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That's not true when tiling the Earth though. You need 12 pentagons to close the shape on every zoom level, you can't tile the Earth with just hexagons. That's also why footballs stitch together pentagons and hexagons.