概述
Uber H3
H3是一个针对地球的空间划分和空间索引系统。
The H3 geospatial indexing system is a discrete global grid system consisting of a multi-precision hexagonal tiling of the sphere with hierarchical indexes. The hexagonal grid system is created on the planar faces of a sphere-circumscribed icosahedron, and the grid cells are then projected to the surface of the sphere using an inverse face-centered polyhedral gnomonic projection.
名词解释
Icosahedron(正二十面体)
正二十面体(Regular twenty aspect) 是由20个等边三角形所组成的正多面体,共有12个顶点,30条棱,20个面。为五个柏拉图多面体之一。
In geometry, an icosahedron is a polyhedron with 20 faces.
Hexagons(正六边形)
正六边形就是在平面几何学中,具有六条相等的边和六个相等内角的多边形。各内角相等,六边相等。由多边形外角和等于360度,推出一个内角为180-(360/6)=120度,所以内角为120度。
Gnomonic projection
It views the the surface data from the center of the earth.
- The gnomonic map projection displays all great circles as straight lines.
- The least distortion occurs at the tangent point.
- Less than half of the sphere can be projected onto a finite map.
- Since Meridians and the Equator are great circles, they are always shown as straight lines.
dymaxion projection(Fuller Map)
用一个正二十面体内切地球,并且是多面体的顶点均映射到海洋区域,然后将地球使用Gnomonic projection 投影到多面体上,将多面体展成一个平面,保证大陆不会被分裂开。
A map of the Earth which presents geographic information in a single, comprehensive picture without breaks in any of the continental contours, or any visiUberble distortion of the relative shapes or sizes of the land masses.<