- The Federation Standard World Mapping Index uses hexagon shaped mapping templates to standardise mapping of planets.
- A Standard Hex is 1.0m in diametre.
- A MegaHex is a 1.5m Hex and the adjoining 1.5m Hexes.
- A Tactical Hex is 10m in diametre, depicted with MegaHexes.
- A First Order or Single Hex is 1km in diametre.
- A Second Order or Local Hex is 10km in diametre.
- A Third Order or Terrain Hex is 100km in diametre.
- A Fourth Order or World Hex is 1000km in diametre.
- A World Triangle is a variable number of 1000km World Hexes along a side.
- A World Map is twenty World Triangles forming an Icosahedral Mapping Template
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