Square vs. honeycomb raster grids
On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Bacou, Melanie wrote:
I am wondering if current R raster operations (e.g. `extract()`, `resample()`, distance(), etc.) can be modified to work with honeycomb (hexagonal) grids instead of simple square grids? This is driven by e.g. work at Uberhttps://www.slideshare.net/stonse/ml-and-data-science-at-uber-gitpro-talk-2 017, and other articles http://strimas.com/spatial/hexagonal-grids/. I'm being asked to evaluate the pros/cons of using different tessellations, and wondering what's the extent of R's support for non square grids.
Please also consider taking this up with: https://github.com/r-spatial/stars where it is very relevant. See also the dggridR package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dggridR/index.html Please report back on this - it deserves to be advanced actively. Roger
Many thanks, --Mel.
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