The Honeycomb Blog

Fetching data for interactive maps involves navigating tradeoffs on speed, scalability, and cost. Honeycomb Maps recently developed a new feature, SQL Parameters, allowing end users to control queries that run on the data warehouse, increasing efficiency.

Honeycomb Maps is now available on the web with a free tier for individuals and business plans for teams, building on our existing Snowflake Native App.

Our latest update brings enterprise-grade permissions, security, and management capabilities to Honeycomb Maps, making it easier to scale map dashboards across your organization.

We are excited to launch our Google Drive integration, which allows you to create and share interactive maps from within Google Drive, for free.

With new client-side polygon filtering and aggregation in Honeycomb Maps, business users can quickly and easily calculate metrics for operations areas, delivery zones, and more.

GLS used Honeycomb within their ParcelPlanner software to enable the creation of more efficient delivery tours

H3 doesn't solve every geospatial problem, but for point-based events (common in the mobility & last-mile delivery industries), it allows location data to be easily integrated and used within existing business intelligence (BI) systems and processes

This tutorial walks through creating a data model for a delivery company, going beyond traditional methods and incorporating location data for greater insights into delivery performance.

Honeycomb for Snowflake combines Honeycomb’s cutting-edge location data visualization with Snowflake’s industry-leading scale, security, and geospatial features.

This tutorial shows how to retrieve location data about parcel lockers from OpenStreetMap and process it with DuckDB

Geospatial indexing is a powerful technique that serves a variety of purposes like accelerating database retrieval, facilitating spatial joins, enabling data aggregations, and enhancing visualizations.

Geospatial analysis tools have historically been limited to GIS experts, however, with new technologies, tools like Honeycomb enable business users to interact with spatial data interactively.