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pheelickslast Monday at 7:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Very impressive results, cool to see innovation in this space! I’d definitely be interested in a follow up post going into the details of the geometric algorithms.

I’m working on my own DGGS, A5, the first (and only) to use pentagons. It offers true equal area cells and a much higher cell fidelity (below 1cm compared to 1m for H3).

I’m looking for contributors to get involved and you seem to have the perfect skill set. It would be amazing to have you join the project :) https://a5geo.org/ https://github.com/felixpalmer/a5


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grim7reaperlast Monday at 9:27 PM

Ha, yeah, I remember reading about your project back in April (I think someone shared it on the GeoRust Discord). Really cool stuff you have here!

Can't say I understand all the math behind it, as it's not my forte (even for H3, for the more numerical parts, I rely on the work of the original authors: I could never have come up with this myself), but your doc is really great!

For the follow-up article, I hope I can get to it eventually. But spare time is a rare currency ^^