[postgis-users] Area()

[Dylan Lorimer]

Beautiful...that's what I figured. thanks much for the swift reply!

On 3/27/07, Obe, Regina <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov> wrote:
>
>  The unit of measurement is in the units of your spatial reference system
> defined by your SRID.  So lets say your spatial ref is in NAD 83 meters,
> then your area would be in square meters.
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> Lorimer
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:41 PM
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> *Subject:* [postgis-users] Area()
>
> 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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