[postgis-users] Area()

Dylan Lorimer edylan at google.com
Tue Mar 27 12:41:26 PDT 2007


Hi,

What unit of measurement is returned if I run a 'select Area(the_geom) from
... where ..." on a spatial table?

For example, I just computed the area of a neighborhood in san francisco
based on its polygon, the result I got is: 4801031.97921228.
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