Progressive Globe: Instant H3 → Detail on Demand

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Explore 6.7 million material samples from iSamples — the globe loads instantly with H3 hexagonal aggregates, then refines as you zoom down to individual samples.

  1. Instant (<1s): Pre-aggregated H3 res4 summary (580 KB) → 38K colored circles
  2. Zoom in: Automatically switches to res6 (112K) then res8 (176K) clusters
  3. Zoom deeper (<120 km): Individual sample points from 60 MB lite parquet
  4. Click: Cluster info or individual sample card with full metadata

Circle size = log(sample count). Color = dominant data source.

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SESAR OpenContext GEOME Smithsonian

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Click a cluster or sample on the globe

1 How This Demo Works

Pre-aggregated H3 hexagonal indices achieve near-instant globe rendering, with seamless drill-down to individual samples:

Phase Data Size Points
Instant H3 res4 580 KB 38K clusters (continental)
Zoom in H3 res6 1.6 MB 112K clusters (city)
Zoom more H3 res8 2.5 MB 176K clusters (neighborhood)
Zoom deep Map lite 60 MB (range req.) Up to 5K individual samples
Click sample Full dataset ~280 MB (range req.) Full metadata for 1 sample

4 parquet files, zero backend. All queries run in your browser via DuckDB-WASM with HTTP range requests — only the bytes you need are transferred.

2 See Also