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Grid Maps: Aggregating Data into Equal Cells

By GeoMaps Team · July 2, 2026 · 2 min read
Grid Maps: Aggregating Data into Equal Cells

Points cluster unevenly and neighborhoods come in odd shapes, which makes "which area is busiest?" surprisingly hard to answer fairly. A grid fixes that by imposing equal squares and counting what lands in each.

Same-size cells, fair counts

GeoMaps lays a uniform grid over your data and shades every cell by its count. Because each square covers the same ground, you can compare them directly — no big district looking busy just because it's big.

The same grid over Atlanta
The same grid over Atlanta

Resize the cells to move between a coarse overview and a fine-grained read, and the counts re-tally instantly. Where the hexbin is the analyst's heatmap, the grid is the spreadsheet's — clean rows and columns, drawn on the map.

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