Hex grids, now in GeoPandas 1.2
GeoPandas 1.2 adds make_grid: we covered the Philippines in 1,531 hexagons, 20 km across. Plus greedy coloring, basemaps, and GeoParquet 2.0 support.
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GeoPandas 1.2 adds make_grid: we covered the Philippines in 1,531 hexagons, 20 km across. Plus greedy coloring, basemaps, and GeoParquet 2.0 support.
Try an exercise · QGIS: Essentials
Exercise 3.5 in Introduction to layers in QGIS.