Foursquare Spatial H3 Hub

FSQ Spatial H3 Hub eliminates traditional barriers to geospatial data adoption in traditional ML models by providing data scientists with analysis-ready datasets that do not require specialized geospatial tools or expertise. Datasets containing information in raster and vector formats are converted to tabular form and indexed to H3 cells. This allows data scientists to easily enrich their own datasets, containing attributes like lat/long coordinates, city names, or zip codes, by joining on a common H3 index. Built on DataHub‘s enterprise metadata management system, the platform ensures data lineage tracking, versioning, and governance capabilities that enterprise data teams require. This foundation enables the first offering in the FSQ Spatial H3 Hub: an Iceberg Catalog that offers 20+ open datasets pre-indexed to H3 cells at resolution 8, made available in a free preview. Data scientists can access this catalog from their framework of choice (Spark, Python, DuckDB) and augment their ML models with a rich array of spatial features.