a5R: 'A5' Discrete Global Grid System
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Version 1.0.0Description Bindings for the ``A5 geospatial index'' .'A5' partitions the Earth's surface into pentagonal cells across 31 resolution levels using an equal-area projection onto a dodecahedron.Provides functions for indexing coordinates to cells, traversing the cell hierarchy, computing cell boundaries, and compacting/uncompacting cell sets.Powered by the 'A5' 'Rust' crate via 'extendr'.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Data Analysis with R
Geographic Information Systems Studies
Historical Geography and Cartography
Publication details
- Publication date
- 16 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Dataset