[postgis-users] Computing area in km^2 from 4326 geometries

Sean Gillies sgillies at frii.com
Tue Sep 28 16:17:58 PDT 2004


On Sep 28, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Ethan Alpert wrote:

> How does one compute areas in km^2? I was thinking something like 
> area2d(transform(the_geom,<someEPSG>)).
>  How do others do this?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> -e

Ethan,

That's how I do it.

Sean

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