<html><head></head><body dir="auto"><div>Did you get square degrees back? Project to a meter or feet based projection to get a measure more meaningful. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tyler</div><div><br>On 2013-05-28, at 7:14 AM, "Federico Jurio" <<a href="mailto:federicojurio@suremptec.com.ar">federicojurio@suremptec.com.ar</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Dear all, here I am with one question which I'm sure has such a simple answer that I already feel embarassed in advance! Here goes anyway... I'm trying to calculate the area length on a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.1875px">GeoTIFF file</span> using GetArea() method of OGRPolygon class and i'm not sure which is the unit that returns.<div>
<br></div><div>This is the information about the raster dataset</div><div><br></div><div>"GEOGCS[\"WGS 84\",DATUM[\"WGS_1984\",SPHEROID[\"WGS 84\",6378137,298.2572235630016,AUTHORITY[\"EPSG\",\"7030\"]],AUTHORITY[\"EPSG\",\"6326\"]],PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0],UNIT[\"degree\",0.0174532925199433],AUTHORITY[\"EPSG\",\"4326\"]]"</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your patience<br><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Federico Jurio<br><div>SUR Emprendimientos Tecnológicos<br></div><div><br></div><div>Perú 345 Piso 5to Oficina "B" (C1067AAG)<br>
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