Bing Tiles

I wrote this article in 2021 on Hashnode when I was using Bing Tiles in my research. I am reposting it here to archive it. How do we store and query large spatial datasets? Here, we will build our understanding of the mathematical foundations of the Bing Tile System. To store large spatial datasets, we can divide them into usable sections (“tiles”) and assign them a unique identifier. One of the many systems for referencing these tiles is the Bing Tile System, a clever way to calculate identifiers for tiles of spatial data....