[Geomoose-users] Soil acreage calculator?

[Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)]

Mark,

If you have all the soil types by polygons available you could do this via Postgres/PostGIS with a SQL call.  You would need to load the polygon data into PostGIS and then formulate your call as SQL to spit the report back.

You could probably do something similar directly against SHP files, but I think the performance might not be that great, especially across many layers of polygons.

Not on the easy side, but doable.

Bobb



>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-
>>  users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz
>>  Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 1:55 PM
>>  To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>  Subject: [Geomoose-users] Soil acreage calculator?
>>  
>>  Hello,
>>  
>>  I would like to create a tool in GeoMOOSE that would allow a user
>>  to sketch in a polygon and get back the a report containing the
>>  total acreage of each soil type within the selection polygon?
>>  Would a tool like this be easy, or possible to create?  Has
>>  anyone else done anything similar?
>>  
>>  Thanks
>>  
>>  Mark Volz
>>  GIS Specialist
>>  
>>  
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