H3

H3 is a hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system, developed by Uber.

H3 has become popular in the geospatial community for indexing and aggregating spatial data at multiple spatial scales. H3 partitions the world into overlapping hexagonal grids.

Atlas uses the h3-js library to generalize Activity Location Data at hexagon resolution six. Bindings are also available for PostgreSQL (H3-pg) and Python with pandas (h3pandas).

This notebook extracts the h3 hexagons clipped to a country boundary for mapping in the Activity Location Data Portal (Public).