H3 cell index

ID h3_cell

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Index of a cell (hexagon or pentagon) of H3, the hierarchical hexagonal grid system developed at Uber. The 64-bit index holds the index mode (1 for a cell), the resolution from 0 to 15, one of 122 base cells and one digit from 0 to 6 for each finer resolution; unused digits are set to 7. The canonical text form is lowercase hexadecimal without padding or prefix, so a cell index has 15 characters, starts with 8, and its second character is the resolution. H3 directed edge and vertex indexes use other modes and are not covered.

Categories: Geographic identifiers
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Quality: 75/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^8[0-9a-f]{14}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
85283473fffffff	Resolution 5 cell used in the H3 API documentation
822d57fffffffff	Resolution 2 cell from the H3 API documentation
0x85283473fffffff invalid	The canonical form has no prefix
85283473fffffff0 invalid	Sixteen characters

Sources

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