Grid Index

Indexing views of space is a great way to functionalize navigation, communication, and the programmatic execution of a large scale image generation, mapbook, atlas (the QGIS term), or data driven page (ArcMap) equivalent. This was one of my favorite parts of GIS cartography and I don’t deploy it often enough. That changes now.

Reference

Tessellation templates

Starting with a toy map we want to tessellate

Numbered

Simple Battleship

Complex Battleship

Twin Battleships

HEX numbered

HEX flat

Shaped HEX

And functionalized

Todo

Example

How to