[Qgis-user] Area Calculations - what the h... is going on?

[Nyall Dawson]

On 7 July 2017 at 00:38, magerlin <MAP at ramboll.dk> wrote:
> I normally use $area in the field calculator to calculate areas of polygon
> but now this is really weird.
>
> I have 5 polygons in the same shape file and tries to calculate the areas -
> but two of the polygon get areas of about 100 times as big as they should be
> while the 3 remaining polygons get ok areas. If I use area($geometry)
> instead I get OK areas:

Thanks for reporting this - I've identified the issue and it's fixed
now in master and the 2.18 branch (so fix will be in 2.18.11)

Nyall