Installing H3 on a Linux Subsystem in Windows 10
Installing H3 on a Linux Subsystem in Windows 10 Installing H3 on a Linux Subsystem in Windows 10 H3 is a library developed by the Uber team, that implements spatial analysis based on indexed hexagons. Hexagons have especially interesting properties for spatial operations. See more here. My experience installing H3 on Windows was not good. H3 did not work, and errors were not clear on the causes either. After some googling I reached the conclusion that crafting that installation could become a headache. So I decided to test the alternative way of using Linux as a subsystem of Windows. This turn out very well. I collect in this post the steps for the complete setup: 1. Install the Linux subsystem The procedure for this installation is simple and [explained here] (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10). The steps: Using Windows Powershell (wich is available on Windows), enter the command that authorizes the execution of the subsystem: Restart Install a Linux distribution. The distributions can be found at Microsoft Store. In my case I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Just download and install. No special configurations required here. Once installed we will have access to Ubuntu through a shortcut: 2. Preparing the installation of…