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Re:HEALPix by sligbad on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:24PM (#47904653)
Also very cool: Google's S2 geometry - https://s2geometry.io/

Used by https://catch.astro.umd.edu/

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Re:HEALPix by kybernetikos on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:26AM (#47908476)
I used S2 to make https://wherewords.id/

It was very pleasant to work with - I spent by far the majority of the project time on the wordlist.

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Re:HEALPix by sligbad on Sunday April 26, 2026 @11:04AM (#47910910)
I've seen some similar geohash-words stuff, this is super cool, thanks for sharing!
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