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Date Published
Author
Helen McKenzie
Word count
843
Language
English
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Summary

Snowflake has partnered with industry leader CARTO to bring native support for H3 Spatial Indexing, accelerating geospatial analysis and visualization. H3 is a Discrete Geographical Grid that indexes the world into a grid at multiple resolutions, making spatial data smaller and faster to process. The integration allows users to leverage 19 H3-specific SQL functions in Snowflake, enabling advanced features such as manipulating H3 data, generating areas of influence, and enriching grids with external data. Additionally, CARTO's low-code tool Workflows offers pre-built components that utilize the H3 functions, while the mapping platform CARTO Builder allows for native visualization of H3 data. A new H3 Acceleration Programme is also available to help users become proficient in using H3 and accelerate adoption across their organization.