[Qgis-user] calculating areas in lon/lat projection

[maning sambale]

borys and carson,

thanks!

maning

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Carson Farmer <cfarmer at uvic.ca> wrote:
> Maning,
>
> The plugin will calculate values based on the input layers coordinate
> system, so if you're input layer is WGS84 then it will calculate areas as
> squared decimal degrees (not very useful as an areal measurement). I
> recommend projecting the layer to a projected coordinate system such using
> the srs management tool, and recomputing your areas this way. Please note:
> This tool ignores all user defined projection information from the current
> QGIS project.
>
> Oups, I see Borys has already answered your question, well here it is again
> :)
> Carson
>
> maning sambale wrote:
>>
>> Using the calculate geometry plugin in lon/lat WGS 84.  What area unit
>> does the area column produce?
>>
>>
>



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