[postgis-users] Postgis Area size problem

Nicolas Ribot nicky666 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 03:42:22 PDT 2008


> Paulius,
>
>  I referred to Nicolas Ribot's answer to your question on
>  how to get the area. He suggested to do the transform to
>  UTM 40N (which has a SRID = 32640, see his statement). This
>  was likely because he thought your data was somewhere in the
>  United Arab Emirates, due to the swap in lat, lon.
>

Good remark Guido ;-)
I didn't think coordinates could be reverted. I thought Paulius was
working on Arabic countries.



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