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websiteapiyesterday at 7:24 PM7 repliesview on HN

who is using uber h3 and what for? (besides uber of course)


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Audioliteyesterday at 7:45 PM

As one example, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission uses it in its Broadband Data Collection program. You can see some of how it's been implemented here: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/

Edit: It seems some people get a blocked message when visiting the base url. The home path may work better? https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home

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zX41ZdbWyesterday at 7:47 PM

H3 was integrated into ClickHouse in 2019, and since then, I have heard many interesting stories. There are unusual ones, e.g., when it is used not to map data on Earth, but for astronomy (stars, galaxies).

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zigzag312yesterday at 10:49 PM

Overture maps docs use it to visualize the coverage of Overture address data.

https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/addresses/

Picture url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/assets/images/address-coverage...

jandrewrogersyesterday at 8:29 PM

H3 is commonly used for creating visualization aggregates e.g. creating visual summaries of data distribution. That was its primary design case.

grim7reaperyesterday at 8:58 PM

amo is using it quite a lot, mainly for the scratch map feature in the Bump Map application, but not only.

Use cases are: - data storage - data aggregation/clustering - spatial indexing - geometrical computation (as long as you're OK with approximation, you can speed up a lot of things by working with CellID instead of actual geometries) - data visualization

I've seen it used by Databend, Helium, Breakroom (they did an Erlang binding on top of h3o), beaconDB, Greptime, Meilisearch. But I don't exactly know what they are using it for (just that they pulled h3o in their projects).

seanlaneyesterday at 10:51 PM

We use it at Neighbor.com for a lot of data analysis in our marketplace, things like our price recommendations, supply and demand balances, etc.

justanotherunityesterday at 8:36 PM

I’ve used h3 for a game. Since they align with an unique hex, I can ensure that one cell grid aligns and is placed on the same place in the world, where players could then compete on.

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