Geospatial indexes
How to efficiently store and retrieve spatial data: Quadtrees data structures and Geohash encoding.
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Welcome to the 59th issue of the Polymathic Engineer newsletter.
This week, we discuss specific data structures databases use to retrieve data efficiently based on their geographic location.
Such data structures are called geospatial indexes and are commonly used in applications that manage 2D spaces, like Google Maps or other mapping service…
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