[postgis-users] ST_area returning wrong results (and stretched polygon in the screen)

[p valdes]

mmmh... I see

Thanks a lot for your advice Nicolas, I will follow your clue and
investigate about how to do this

pvaldes


> st_area works with data units, degrees in your case.
> So you are computing square degrees, which has no geographic meaning.
> You should project your data to a metric system and then perform area
> computation on the projected data.
> North of Spain corresponds to UTM 30N (SRID 32630).
>
> Nicolas