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Calculating Position from Raw GPS Data (2017)

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An interactive explanation of quadtrees (2014)

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Geogram: Programming Library with Geometric Algorithms

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Choropleth maps with ggplot and R

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A large scale non-linear optimization library

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Largest open dataset of apartment models ever got published

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An Algorithm for Polygon Intersections

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Map Data: False Assumptions

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Lon Lat Lon Lat

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Reimagining projections for the interactive maps era

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H3: Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system

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Transforming OpenStreetMap into thick roads and intersections

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I Hate Coordinate Systems

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H3: Uber’s Hexagonal Hierarchical Spatial Index (2018)

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Onion Curve: A Space Filling Curve with Near-Optimal Clustering (2018)

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Analyzing My Google Location History

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Spatial: A High Level Programming Language for FPGAs

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S2 Geometry

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Fitts’s law

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Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization

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A new kind of map: it’s about time

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Missilemap

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Postgres geography type is not limited to Earth

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A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon

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Programmer’s guide to homogeneous coordinates

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Tutorial for Wykobi – A C++ Computational Geometry Library

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CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

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Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data

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Google’s S2, geometry on the sphere, cells and Hilbert curve

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Implementation of Hex Grids

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An interactive explanation of quadtrees

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Spatial Data Structures for Better Map Interactions

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Rotate the world

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Map Simplification with Visvalingam's Algorithm

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Google open sources key piece of Street View technology

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Damn Cool Algorithms: Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves

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Video-game interface for Khan Academy ... built on Google Maps

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Damn Cool Algorithms: Spatial indexing with Quadtrees and Hilbert Curves

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Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia

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