Playing With Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index, H3

NYC taxi data visualization

Source: https://eng.uber.com/h3/

H3 is a geospatial indexing system developed and open sourced by Uber. It provides functions for converting latitude/longitude coordinates into H3 geospatial hexagonal tiles.

It is entirely written in C but there are bindings available for other languages including Python, R, and Ruby.