I want to create contiguous 30 meter hex grids for binning spatial point data for on-going summary analysis. Ideally, I'd like for these grids to cover the entire earth. Creating and working with this volume of spatial data would be difficult if not impossible. I've thought about creating large rectangular grids as reference with the hex grids overlayed and subdivided and stored into groups (files) referenced by the rectangular grids.
When evaluating new point data, a workflow could reference the rectangular grids that intersect the points and open only the corresponding group of hex grids.
Would this approach work with FME? Is there another approach to binning and summarizing point data on a very large scale?