<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>Thanks for the reply. I don't have SAGA or PostGIS set up at the moment. (have sent Stefan the shapefile off-list). <br><br></div>Moritz - I know that the QGIS value is true. The polygon has been drawn over a feature on a raster image (which I know is correct in its dimensions). <br><br></div>Thanks<br><br></div>James<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 May 2017 at 08:36, Moritz Lennert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mlennert@club.worldonline.be" target="_blank">mlennert@club.worldonline.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 18/05/17 18:41, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:<br>
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Hi James,<br>
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QGIS uses a ellipsoidal area measurement, while GRASS (like most of the other GIS) uses a Cartesian measurement (others, please correct me if that is not the case in WGS84).<br>
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See amongst others:<br>
<a href="https://issues.qgis.org/issues/12057" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://issues.qgis.org/issues<wbr>/12057</a> and<br>
<a href="https://issues.qgis.org/issues/14675" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://issues.qgis.org/issues<wbr>/14675</a><br>
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Would you mind comparing area measurement of a third software (SAGA, PostGIS, ...)?<br>
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I would suggest making tests with polygons of which you know the area (e.g. simple squares to begin with)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Moritz<br>
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