On Apr 2, 4:56 am, James Dow Allen <jdallen2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Apr 2, 11:43 am, Danny73 <fasttrac...@att.net> wrote: > > > But here on the three dimensional earth grid it > > is 6 directions --- > > North,South,East,West,Skyward,Earthward. ;-) > > Let me try to inject a serious question I have into > this thread. ;-) > > In a hexagonal grid, each point has six immediate neighbors; > what should their names be? (I asked this question before, > with the only answer being the ugly "solution I was > already using: West, Northwest, Northeast, East, SE, SW.)
That assumes you orient it east-west. You could just as easily orient it north-south, or ignore "conventional" map coordinate systems completely.
> Hexagonal grids have big advantages over square grid > but are seldom used. It sounds silly, but perhaps > lack of the msot basic nomenclature is one reason!
NSEW nomenclature is tied to the rotation of the Earth. What do you want to tie hex map nomenclature to? What is *available* to tie it to? Note the origin of the word "orient".
