Capacity Building

Workshop

H3: Why hexagons are so cool and how we can use them to map the world

A hands-on workshop on the H3 hexagonal grid system and how to use it to map and analyse the world.

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This workshop, facilitated at the NexTCity Summer School 2026, introduced the H3 hexagonal grid, an open, hierarchical geospatial indexing system, and explored why hexagonal tiling is such a useful way to represent space.

The workshop combined a theoretical introduction to the H3 system, with a crafty hands-on workshop to understand in practice how hexagons are used to map the world, and a python-based exercises' session to learn how to use the h3-py library to generate and manipulate H3 grids, and to perform spatial analysis on real-world datasets.

  • H3
  • Geospatial
  • Workshop
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