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Port Turf.hex-grid to java

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, java
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start with the referenced Turf hex-grid implementation and compare its behavior with the Java SDK; the issue does not name a target file or test. The work is done when the Java implementation returns a feature collection of hexagons or triangles from a bounding box and cell diameter and supports the android-demo-app heatmap use case.

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Description

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Make Turf's hex-grid function be available in java.
Hex-grid utility will return a Feature Collection of hexagons or triangles based on a bounding box and the diameter of the cell. This is will enable to do a HeatMap demo in the android-demo-app.

Here is more information about hex-grid:
https://github.com/Turfjs/turf/tree/master/packages/turf-hex-grid

Dominant language
Java
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