Filimoa/polars-h3
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🌎 Polars H3 Geospatial Plugin
6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2024-12-13 · latest 2025-11-03
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…and last time I benchmarked it, it had 5X better performance than even duckdb’s C++ implementation. https://github.com/Filimoa/polars-h3
comment by serjester · 2025-11-03 · in Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Version of Uber H3 in Rust -
…old geo pandas / duckdb code. The faster we can completely get rid of geo pandas, the better. [1] https://github.com/Filimoa/polars-h3
comment by serjester · 2025-05-04 · in DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade -
…do some of this. Trying to do this sort of analysis any other way would be incredibly painful. [1] https://github.com/Filimoa/polars-h3 [2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/18jIVEbE_1QbwTbHdMqj0AVqguf2...
comment by serjester · 2025-03-09 · in H3: For indexing geographies into a hexagonal grid, by Uber -
…We do some geospatial stuff and I wrote a polars plugin to help with this a while back [1]. [1] https://github.com/Filimoa/polars-h3
comment by serjester · 2025-02-07 · in Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019) -
…and some help from AI it only took me 2ish days - I can’t imagine doing this in C++ (DuckDB). [1] https://github.com/Filimoa/polars-h3
comment by serjester · 2024-12-15 · in Should you ditch Spark for DuckDB or Polars?